Shipping container homes

Human beings have come a long way since they were eking out miserable existences in caves. We've gone through huts, cottages, houses, mansions, high rise apartments, houseboats and restored factories. I have no doubt that someone, somewhere, has managed to put together an amazing design house in a tree and that soon we'll go full circle, with popular designers creating enormous living spaces hewn out of rock caves. The popularity of shipping containers, already widespread in Australia, hit British shores in a big way in 2001 with the completion of Container City at Trinity Buoy Wharf in the London Docklands. It's easy to see why. Whilst some people say they're an eyesore, you can't argue with the fact that they provide large and affordable living space that's very green (so well insulated they barely need heating) and that helps recycle some of the thousands of disused containers rusting away in docks around the world. They're usually fitted off-site and it then takes less than a day to put the containers together. I'm not likely to be able to afford a traditional home any time soon so my eyes are peeled for a bit of land somewhere in London where I can build my very own container stack.





Images via Visual Super Computing, Container City, Ecoble, Wanderlust Mind, Poetichome and Plastolux.