I have recently become more and more interested in lowering my carbon footprint.  I think about it everytime I throw something away, I’m the guy at Quiznos that hastles teh owners to get a recycling bin for my sobe and as a benifit to being vegitarian I naturally have a smaller footprint.  I stumbled upon a posting about container houses.  

Did you know that it is cheaper to build a new container to ship goods over seas than to take it back and re use it?  So there is an abundance of woter tight containers in the world.  

So there is a new huge movement to use them for building houses.  Other parts of the world are well into the swing of this but it’s picking up in the states.  I even got the GF designing layouts.  I think it would be fun to get some blocks that are scaled down and just start stacking them to design a house.

Here is one of the more minimalist designs that I like.  I, being a minimalist and loving all things modern particularly like this style.  Perfect for a bachelor.

 

MoCo Loco: 2+ Weekend House by Conhouse.

Designed by Jure Kotnik Arhitekt, the 2+ Weekend House is a container house with a difference – it’s made with containers manufactured expressly for housing (vs. cargo containers). “As opposed to the other container projects, which mostly feed on the excess of available cargo containers, ConHouse pushes the development of containers manufactured especially for housing and office purposes.”. The 2+ is a two-level mini housing unit composed of two stacked containers perpendicular to each other. The upper container provides a projecting roof above the entrance and also serves to shelter the back terrace. The ceiling of the bottom container is the terrace on the first floor.

+ conhouse.com