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Would You Buy This Off-Grid, Bunker-Style, Shipping Container Home for $46K?

Ottawan Joseph Dupuis built this mostly-off-grid, 355 sq ft shipping container home and is now selling it for a cool $46,500 ($58K CAD). While this doesn’t fall into the super cheap price tier, especially as it lacks a toilet and you’re.

$28K Turnkey Shipping Container Home

There’s a certain elegance to shipping container homes. The basic structure is needlessly tough. There is an abundance of used containers to build with. They are infinitely portable. Their dimensions are perfect for compact living. They can be arranged and stacked in many.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Oct 29, 2013
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Portable, Modular, Academic

A couple weeks ago, we looked at Lund University’s scheme for low cost student housing, using innovative micro-houses instead of traditional dorms. Another Scandinavian project is trying to achieve the same end, albeit with different means. At the University of.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Aug 13, 2013
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Shipping Containers Deliver Innovative, Elegant Homes

There have been many variations on the theme of converting shipping containers into homes, but few are as elegant or practical as this one by Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society. The just completed building contains 12 studio units, sized from 280-290 sq ft,.