Outbuilding of the Week: A Shipping Container Transformed Into the Ultimate Holiday House by Michelle Slatalla
Sometimes when I'm awake in the middle of the night, I obsess about the zillions of shipping containers in the world. (That is, when I am not obsessing over bills, tomorrow's commute, or why I am not asleep.) What happens to all those corrugated metal boxes in the end? Is there some graveyard where obsolete cargo containers go to be piled into a sad, rusty mountain of metal?
Maybe I should take a sleeping pill (I think, at 3 a.m.). Or get up and wander around Pinterest until I feel sleepy, or—
Well, will you look at this pin? A New Zealand architecture firm called Atelierworkshop has transformed a shipping container into a holiday house—or a "bach." (That's what they call a vacation cabin in New Zealand, by the way; it's short for "bachelor pad.") It has clever bunk beds, a tiny kitchenette, even a foldout terrace.
Above: This particular holiday house—a prototype for a design I'd very much like to see in mass production—is a "port-a-bach," because it doesn't have a permanent foundation. Move it to a nice sunny spot with a view.
Above: For open-air sleeping, the bunks fold out like Murphy beds.
Above: In fact, the whole port-a-bach folds open, Barbie-Dream-House style, to reveal a patio.
Above: Indoors, the shipping container has a built-in wood-paneled kitchenette and a shower heated by solar power.
Above: Louvered doors and a retractable awning aid ventilation.
Above: Clever storage shelves don't obstruct the view.
Above: Want, want, want.
I used to think shipping-container cabins sounded like a crazy idea.
Little Cargo Container in the Big Woods by Maria Finn
Last year a real-life county parks department in Washington state sponsored a contest that sounded like just the sort of thing Amy Poehler would dream up onParks and Rec: Transform a surplus cargo container into a permanent campground cabin. And make it cozy.
The winner, Seattle-based HyBrid Architecture, already has a Cargotecture line of re-purposed shipping containers—perhaps you saw last year's Sunset Idea Housein northern California? For Kings County's Toit-MacDonald Park campground, HyBrid's cabin is designed to sleep four and will have a kitchenette. And it's portable, so it can be moved to different locations in the county's 26,000 acres of parkland.
Above: This Cargotecture cabin is already in use as a guesthouse on a rural property near Seattle. Says HyBrid Architecture's principal and co-founder Joel Egan, "These containers are fun, emotional, curious, and durable." Image via HyBrid Architecture. N.B.: For another cargo container house, see "The Architect is In: Container as Guest House.")
Above: Under construction. Soon to be a cabin, the former cargo container has its windows cut, its door installed, and its exterior brushed clean. Next the interior and windows will be framed. Image by Kings County Parks, via Flickr.
Above: HyBrid Architecture collaborated with Sunset Magazine last year to install the Nomade C192. It's a 192-square-foot container home. Image via Sunset.
Above: These doors on the Sunset Idea House open to a deck and let air and light flow through. Image via Sunset.
Above: The C192 has a small kitchen, living space, and built-in-bedding. Joel Egan describes it: "It's a rough shell on the outside, comfortable space on the inside."
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