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Container House

59 Projects 83 Journals 19 Publications 1 Competitions

About Discussions Projects59 Journals83 Publications19 Competitions1

Container housing repurposes industrial shipping containers into functional living spaces, offering modular construction, cost efficiency, and sustainable building practices. This approach has gained traction for diverse residential typologies from single-family homes to large-scale student housing complexes.

The community explores container architecture across scales and contexts, including student housing solutions, collective living arrangements, and specialized institutional programs like marine laboratories. Projects demonstrate how container modules can be stacked, modified, and integrated into varied landscapes and urban conditions.

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Verzendaccommodatie

A student housing modular concept for the Amsterdam University College designed from 15 shipping containers arranged effectively.

saeid and 2 others

Plugin Housing Challenge

the necessity of providing a shelter has along with basic facilities for its users. It is single or double occupancy unit, typically in urban crowded areas. The interiors of such apartments, units are also complacent with the concept itself and kept flexible enough to have adaptive furniture that reduces the need of more space.

akansha

Minima

Minima is a cleverly compact and crafted small footprint home catering to all the basic needs of a family of four. It is characterized by an easy assemble and disassemble process, a compact and flexible structure catering to the basic needs of all the members.

Tanya and 2 others

Student housing from containers

The main focus for us was the most efficient use of free spaces. We came to the solution of this problem due to the special location of the containers relative to each other. Various options for the use of additional space were also considered.

Cristina

HABITAT Student Housing

HABITAT proposal is an aesthetically appealing, affordable, sustainable modular style housing proposal that provides a healthy community living space for many individuals including those with accessibility needs on small footprint of land. The concept could be used in many different settings and would be a positive addition to our living spaces.

chihyun and 晨瑄

Marine Laboratory Housing

Due to the requirements of the course, some students have to do their research the whole day on the ocean. However, there is no field to do some research on and the lack of marine facilities now. We select the site nearby the university and the student dormitory facility cooperates with the marine biology courses of the universities.

Bersu and 2 others

CONTAINER CITY

The container city project has proposed the reuse of cranes in the reuse process of containers. With the use of the crane, the project is planed to be in an addible&removable structure that can be added to the increasing need in the coming years. With the crane being under the control of the stucture, an open-ended, unplaned process is left for the coming.

Jana

House factory

Bauhaus was about design for everyone, philosophy was encouraged by mass production and not restricted by it. House factory is following those principles by producing house prototypes which are available for everyone, and allowing eve-ryone who is interested to participate in creating process. The main goal is to stop spreading wide range of i

Adriaan