Architecture Arts of Cargo Cantainers

There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. The reason for this is that it’s too expensive for a country to ship empty containers back to the their origin – in most cases, it’s just cheaper to buy new containers from Asia.

10 Clever Innovative Shipping Container Homes and Offices

Peter DeMaria

Dordoy Bazaar

by architects Pieter Peelings and Silvia Mertens of Sculp(IT).

by Clive Wilkinson

The world’s first hotel built from recycled shipping containers has popped-up in Uxbridge, West London.

Simon’s Town High School Hostel

Zigloo Domestique project

12 container home

This 2,000 square foot home, built in 2001, is actually built around a smaller cottage-style house that has stood in that location for decades.

This 3,000 square foot L.A. home features multiple storage containers in its design – each with its own purpose.

Via weburbanist.com

Container City

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We’ve featured container-architecture here at Inhabitat before — from Lot-Ek’s altered and extruded prefab container houses, to Cargotecture’s Studio 320 and emergency housing. Clearly, we love the idea of using recycled industrial surplus as the starting point for prefab design, and now Urban Space Management has brought shipping containers to multi-unit, larger-scale housing with the introduction of its component-based, flexible, and widely applicable container construction system.