Shipping Container Houses

In recent years more and more architects and housing planning professionals are taking notice of the world wide trend in shipping container houses. This is no longer the realm of a few tramps making a derelict shipping container their ‘Hobo Junction’. Today you can see entire office and industrial parks built with shipping containers. In the Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan two of the world’s largest markets turnover, on a daily basis, more than US$20 million in sales, each, and all from a collection of some seven thousand or so shipping containers. Stacked two high, the vendors rent the pair and use the bottom unit as the shop with the top unit being storage and, for some, housing.

Shipping Container Houses are now deployed in areas of natural disaster around the world. The ease of transportation and the unique modularization capabilities of the shipping container lend themselves to fast deployment and rapid relief of housing issues wherever they are needed. Not all end users are in dire straights or use the shipping container houses only until their own homes are rebuilt. Some build their dream homes from shipping containers.

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The versatility of the shipping container as a building unit is easy to appreciate. You can build a bath and laundry unit off site, have it delivered and then plumbed in to become operational. Kitchen units and other pre-fabricated living areas can all be delivered to the work site, then quickly put in place. The home can be operation in a few days, sometimes much sooner.

The ease and speed of assembly of a shipping container house means it can be just as quickly taken down and moved somewhere else. When the perfect location is found, the unit or units can be loaded on the back of a truck or two, then driven to wherever they will next be wanted. Tradesmen quickly hook up the plumbing, waste and water, and the electricity.

The cost of the basic units is very cheap and as a housing option, even better value. Smart use of shipping container houses can turn a cheap but otherwise unproductive rural building block into a promising retirement getaway.