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Shipping Containers: Projects, Journals & Ideas

59 Projects 38 Journals 1 Competitions

About Discussions Projects59 Journals38 Competitions1

Shipping containers offer designers a readily available, modular building material with inherent structural properties and dimensional constraints. This topic explores how architects and designers repurpose industrial containers into functional buildings, from single-family homes to large-scale housing developments and institutional projects.

The community documents container conversions across residential housing, student accommodation, hospitality, and speculative uses. Projects range from practical housing solutions and container cities to experimental installations like floating retreats and repurposed cargo ships, demonstrating the material's versatility across different scales and contexts.

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Jaime Rios10 works

Tanya Prevezentseva7 works

Bersu Başaranoğlu2 works

Fredrik Thulin2 works

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soheib and 3 others

367

Futuristic Floating Residents

Sea level rising in coastal cities have a negative impact on the lives of residents. Findings support the argument that traditional land reclamation methods are not a practical long term solution apart from its various disadvantages on the ecosystem.Our approach to solve this problem was to adapt to environment and use floating structure against SLR impacts.

Gelareh and 3 others

227

GeCon

This project has employed generative design method to generate thousands of alternatives for the dormitory building in a short time and to take advantage of computational design methods to approach the most efficient way to organize the container modules for the purpose of enhancing quality of life on the basis of maximum area and received direct sunlight.

Tanya

119

Container city

The basis of the suggested project is the placement of a dormitory for students and teachers of the Murmansk Marine Fisheries College named after I.I. in northwestern Russia. The project that you are considering suggests forming of structural style made of sea or rail containers to resemble a traditional Russian dwelling - a hut.

Tanya

104

Cambridge container town

The concept of the "container city" presented in the competition reflects the author's idea of the essence of the student housing arrangement, as inexpensive and quickly constructed. To create a student campus, the competition paper applied a block development scheme. To create a student campus, a quarterly development scheme was applied in competitive work.

Antonio and Phillip

104

Verzendaccommodatie

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

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.

Tanya and 3 others

Marine student container city

The main aim of the project is to create a comfortable dwelling for maritime students and to provide the possibility of using this space for another function.

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.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Container Skyscraper at Dharavi: Recycled Shipping Containers Stacked into Vertical Affordable Housing

A hybrid concrete and steel frame holds modular shipping container homes above Dharavi, freeing the ground for markets and shared community life.

Container City

Slumscraper

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago

Container Experience Home by Estudio Nómade: A Floating Retreat in Mar Azul, Argentina

The Container Experience Home by Estudio Nómade transforms shipping containers into a sustainable, elevated retreat blending innovation, architecture, and nature.

Shipping Containers

Sustainable Living