Shipping Container
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Built on the shell of an old container ship, the VARD 1-08 KILKEA is designed to take you and 36 of your closest friends to the corners of the globe in sumptuous comfort, provided you've got a spare $62 million.
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Canadian firm Honomobo has launched a new range of shipping container-based homes. Able to serve as standalone tiny house, garage suite or home extension, they can also be outfitted with solar power and upgraded insulation.
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A new housing development comprising seven shipping container-based apartments was recently installed in Encinal, Texas. The project consists of one and two bedroom units that feature a focus on energy efficiency and affordability.
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CPH Containers aims to offer affordable student housing based on shipping containers. Working with Vandkunsten Architects' Søren Nielsen, the firm has developed a prototype container home which it plans to use as a jumping-off point in constructing a "student village" in Copenhagen later this year.
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Architecture students recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to support their local community garden. The team's plans include the use of recycled shipping containers and solar power.
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In remote areas of Africa, there aren't always schools nearby, let alone ones equipped for teaching digital literacy. An alternative is to take digital education to such remote locations. The DigiTruck is a fully equipped solar-powered mobile digital classroom that can do just that.
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Residents of Lagoa Santa in Brazil will no longer have to crane their necks for views of the area's lagoon. Instead they can simply look into a huge periscope made from a shipping container. At 12.5-m (41-ft) tall, Superiscopio is claimed to be the biggest periscope in the world.
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Ganti and Associates Design has taken a crack at imagining a structurally viable, sustainable container-based skyscraper for India's huge Dharavi slum in Mumbai. The unnamed concept would rise to a height of 100 m (328 ft).
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Here's some interesting – though unlikely to be realized – food-for-thought from Shenzhen, China-based CRG Architects. The firm envisions constructing a pair of shipping container-based skyscrapers in one of the world's largest slums: Dharavi, Mumbai, India.
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Using old shipping containers is seen as an environmentally friendly means of constructing new homes. Taking this one step further, Sustainer Homes has begun making off-grid container dwellings that incorporate self-managed water, sewerage, electricity and gas.
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Having developed containers that can load and unload themselves, Excalibur Shelters has continued to think outside the box with the creation of a standard size shipping container that unfolds into very large shelters and pavilions.
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Shipping containers are very versatile, but they're also very expensive to move. Excalibur Shelters's SL-Tainer is a self-lifting container that does away with the need for a crane to get it on and off the back of a truck.
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