The shipping container: now a 3-storey house
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The shipping container: now a 3-storey house

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Architecture on Saturday 19 January 2013

Here’s how to reinvent container blocks: turn it on its side and make it a three-storey house. This ingenious reimagining, Homebox, is by University of Hanover professor Han Slawik who made a wooden version with the same dimensions to run on the same transport system of shipping containers.

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Transportable Puma store

Transportable Puma store

Casper Johansson Reader Find

By Casper Johansson in Architecture on Monday 27 July 2009

This transportable Puma store can be dismantled, transported by ship, and then re-opened as a temporary store, heralding a new style of city building dubbed Shipping Container Architecture.

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