The Shipping Container Building

Remember the post on the Shipping Container House in Wellington, New Zealand? Well, Neatorama reader Marten told us about entire buildings built from shiping containers in the Netherlands.

A little search brought me to Keetwonen, a student housing project in Amsterdam by a company called TempoHousing:

Keetwonen, a student housing project in Amsterdam, turns shipping containers into 1000 units and provides all the amenities a student could ever want. And aside from the obvious green usage of surplus shipping containers, Keetwonen has integrated a rooftop to accommodate efficient rainwater drainage while providing heat dispersal and insulation for the containers beneath. [...]

Containers are home to not only the 1000 units that each have a private balcony, but a cafe, supermarket, office space, and even a sports area. Units are arranged in “blocks,” each block containing a service unit with centralized electricity, internet, and networking systems.

Link - Thanks Marten!

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April 28, 2008 at 11:29 am by Alex
Category: Architecture, Pictures

10 Comments to "The Shipping Container Building"

Mark
April 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Also check out the Freitag store in Zurich, Switzerland. made completely out of shipping containers

http://www.freitag.ch/shop/FREITAG/storelocator.jsf
Sofar
April 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Doesn’t look very earthquake resistant. Also, where’s the architecture?
CheeseDuck
April 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Reminds me of Tetris.
E
April 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Looks cool to me. They’re reusing material so it’s environmentally friendly. Pretty hip. Wonder what it’s like inside them though.
Katsoulis
April 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I’ll bet it’s echoey inside and bit chilly.
Alannah
April 28th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I wish we could have had some pictures of the inside. The idea of a dorm with a balcony is awesome.
K!P
April 29th, 2008 at 2:07 am
@sofar:

in the Netherlands we don’t “do” earthquakes. :), but as each house would be an metal stack 5 high shipping container i think it’s a step up from drywall.
Shay
April 29th, 2008 at 4:54 am
I can understand the initial appeal of wanting to live in some hobo-opolis but once the novelty wears thin and the romance is all but gone you’ll be pining for a 3500 sq ft beige box with central heating in a subdivision .
nixonmatt
April 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Stairs?? Elevator? hmmmmmmmmm.
RayL
May 10th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
There’s a movie from Finland about a community of people living in shipping containers — Man Without a Past.

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