Container Housing Companies

Let's take into consideration now the option of buying a house from a container housing company. Why choose one of their products instead of building yourself a house? We think that the main reasons for doing this are:

• you like the idea to have such a house because you want to be different;
• you don't have enough time for such a big project;
• you don't have the necessary skills to build yourself a shipping container house;
• you want something more complex, designed by an architect, with many rooms and floors, contemporary finishes and interiors, modern and clean lines and maximum comfort.

There are many finished or under construction projects all around the world that make use of containers for different purposes. Here you'll find links to several container housing companies that sell houses made from cargo containers.

Addis Containers is a shipping container house design and construction company from New Zeeland. They have several designs that can be modified according to your needs.

Jones, Partners: Architecture - a good example of container housing company
Their Program Container System (PRO/con) is a prefab house assembled from standard 20-foot steel shipping containers that can be tailored to individual tastes and budgets.
PRO/con combines the shipping container unit with a system of prefabricated steel-frame infill panels: floor panels with recycled-wood flooring; window panels; and roof panels.
"The loose modularity of the PRO/con system," says Wes Jones, "does not view the house as finished product but as a continuously negotiated collection of products and their ultimate relation to the ever-changing American family."

LOT-EK is an architecture studio based in New York. They have many products based on shipping containers and among them there is a "container kit home".

Adam Kalkin is an architect who also has several projects, among which we found two of great interest:



1. The Quick House is a prefabricated kit house designed from recycled shipping containers and is distributed by kalkin & co. It has three bedrooms and two and one-half baths in its 2,000 square foot plan. It comes with a handy booklet and they can build it for you.

2. The 99.000$ house