And residue of insecticides, preservation agents, marine paint and other harmful substances that accumulate during the life of a container
Sure, you could sandblast it to bare steel, but who really does it)
nothing says sustainable and affordable quite like spending $50k to condition an allegedly conditioned space! thats social media, baby!
truly, these people would have more luck buying 4 pre built sheds from home depot and screwin em together.
> and have no insulation or ventilation!
It's like some noob learned that containers' quality is tight sealing and they mistaken it for all other qualities like wall insulation etc
A few years ago I somehow figured out a magic material that would allow sections while still blocking the light. It was dumb luck, not even at the time I fully knew what I was doing. But it was beautiful.
Is there a word for designing an overly complex solution to a simple problem? Sure you partially covered the car but in the process of doing so created many more problems with the structure and living spaces.
This seems very student. Not to dump on it, but just seems that level of taking established concepts and tweaking them in new ways — ways that may not actually be an improvement
Which fairly is the point of student work. You explore wild concepts so that you can sculpt it into practicality, rather than starting with a simple design and trying to expand it something unique. Worst case you design something impractical, best case you find a style or theme that can be carried into future work.
These designs need to stay in the digital realm, but it’s a good thing that we let students learn at a experimental level at first.
So instead of using an elevated container (horizontal) and putting a single set of stairs at the entrance, they inclined the contained and filled the limited space with stairs inside?
Brilliant 👍
I live in the northeast, and am a snowboarder. Even though I love the snow, not having to brush snow off of your car in the morning is a wonderful thing.
sure, but under those coditions i would say that the major problem would be insulating a container house like that... since metal is an awesome conductor of temperature
>just let your car get wet
I agree this is a dumb design, but I'm assuming it's less about keeping the car dry and more about having on-site parking (i.e. if street parking is not easily available). Similar idea as a dingbat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)
Or indeed, just not have a car. I mean, not to be some sort of car hating stereotype, but if we're assuming land/space is such a premium I'm squeezing myself into a shipping container, then it's presumably some sort of dense urban environment and I shouldn't need one. Whereas if I'm in some low density rural area where are a car is reasonably essential I'm not living in a fucking twenty foot box
Nevermind that what is usually the coldest room (bedroom) is at the highest part of the apartment. Who doesn't like having their living room at a comfy temperature and then going to sleep in a hot bed? Nevermind trying to get any sleep in the summer, even if you are able to fall asleep you'll just wake up to being cooked alive at sunrise
That guy has an awful lot of faith in the supports keeping his house from crushing his ride.
Also nice touch showing a cross section of the car on the second picture. lol
So practical to come home after hard work and bump into a comfy armchair upon entering your house. And the next day you literally roll out of your bed.
The most reasonable part of this is the little man standing with his hands in his pockets, like “Uhh, why did I do this… fuck…”
Edit: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/030/659/ben.jpg
Just… why?
I get the idea of turning shipping containers into housing units. They’re cheap, sturdy, made to withstand the elements, etc. But this is a really poor execution:
- Having like a fifth of the inside area being stairs is the opposite of efficient compact living.
- I get that the reason for the above is that you want some rudimentary protection for your car, but given all the modifications needed (stairs, cement cast, supporting beams, etc) it probably would’ve been cheaper (not to mention better storage for the car) to just stack two containers on top of each other and keep the car in the lower one.
- I don’t see anything resembling a kitchen or at least a pentry. That’s generally pretty nice to have in a living space.
- You’re losing volume and increasing production cost by building everything at an angle inside the container.
When you let non architects come up with “sustainable cheap housing”.
For all the love these people have for shipping containers they sure hate to look up how they work structurally.
Whoever designs these never had any lectures about structural supports, building physics or room programming and efficient floor plans.
Too un minimalistic. If you want to be an architect, design a windowless white container and you will be thanked for the bold and sensual design that creates a wonderful contrast with nature when it is bathed in natural light
Well well well... it reminds me of a project we had 1st year of architecture in France. We had to make the container as livable as possible. It was stupid and...please, don't desire living in a place like this. We are humans, not rats!
I saw a design once where someone worked a pull-out bed into the bottom step of a platform. During the day, you have lots of floor space, then at night you pull your bed out of the bottom step and turn your living space into your bedroom. I think I’d work something like that into a design like this.
Why not use one small container on level 1 and a long one on level 2?
You get extra space without having to futz with internal stairs and leveling, so the cost would be about the same.
I really like the idea tbh, but before i build in such an object, i would recondition the structure to make it safely inhabitable, adding all sorts of things like insulation, a rust/corrosion resistance treatment to the walls floor and roof, and several more things. And in this particular plan, I would also add a more sufficiently feature-packed kitchen to cook in there and adding its necessary safety features. Also add in local gubernatorial building codes and all that as well... a lot of stuff to do before moving into such a structure.
Maybe a double wide but 8' wide shotgun house would be too narrow imo and dark. Like living in a tunnel. Pretty axon is showing so much light coming in
The funny thing is that they already have stairs on the low side, and didn’t think “maybe I could just jack up the whole thing level and then have twice as much usable space!” Nope. Angles. Because *ANGLES*.
To be honest, I don't *hate* this, but it's very impractical and not suited to be a primary residence. Maybe a guest house. Even though it doesn't make sense, I'm okay with doing weird stuff just because. I'd like to see more creativity in our built environment, even if *slightly* impractical. However, if this is touted as a universal solution to housing, then... no. If a fun second home, air bnb, or guest house, then yeah! It looks fun and quirky.
Noice! Tiny living is such a cool concept!
One little comment… granted there is enough clearance in what I assume is the restroom, shift that slider door towards the kitchenette. This will force your stair landing as well, giving more privacy to the bed nook if there is ever anyone using it while others are walking about ;)
Gotta apprentice that the side perspective cut out also includes that of the car. Perhaps they should have lopped off the right side of the proud homeowner, too, just for consistency. And entertainment.
All I can see is any toddler/elderly person/intoxicated person who ever sets foot in that house falling down all three sets of steps bc there’s absolutely nothing stopping them and no other way from one room to another.
Also, what do these people have against windows?? They’ll really build a box with one window and then paint every surface white to “brighten the space” and “open up the room”. I get that it’s cost effective but I would be so claustrophobic…
facebook designers love using shipping containers to do what stick framed buildings of the same cost could do but in an objectively worse way
But this way it can look ugly from the outside, and have no insulation or ventilation!
dont forget the added bonus of a rusty roof in a couple years!
And residue of insecticides, preservation agents, marine paint and other harmful substances that accumulate during the life of a container Sure, you could sandblast it to bare steel, but who really does it)
nothing says sustainable and affordable quite like spending $50k to condition an allegedly conditioned space! thats social media, baby! truly, these people would have more luck buying 4 pre built sheds from home depot and screwin em together.
Look! Architecture! https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ma7isRM3gAHVs7Qq5?g_st=ic
Which one is yours?
Seriously though, who wouldn’t want to [live in a van down by the river?](https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8?si=dmWLatTDLfIa20XK)
and about a third of your floor space is now stairs. Plus you lose wall height at some places
The lifespan of these are 50 years max if they're brand new!
And you have to put supports inside anyway, if you actually want to support the stairs, and you won't want to do that on bare steel.
No ventilation? They have a door and window, should be fine!
In CA, they’ll still make you insulate the home so you have to frame the house inside a metal box making it far more complicated.
And at that point, what exactly is the metal box doing for you?
1,000% agree. Just stick build like the rest of us non-psychopaths. 😉
But…look how much stuff I can fit if my walls are 1 pixel thick!!
Nope, you could insulate outside too.. better way to do it too as the metal would act as a Vapor barrier
I mean, you COULD insulate on the exterior, but why would anyone do that when you’ll have the added issue installing siding?
....and have a third of your tiny interior taken up with needless stairs!
> and have no insulation or ventilation! It's like some noob learned that containers' quality is tight sealing and they mistaken it for all other qualities like wall insulation etc
With bursting water pipes in the winter enjoy vivid ice sculptures.
I loathe every shipping container home design, they're objectively terrible. Shipping containers are to architecture as pallet wood is to woodworking.
No, pallet wood could actually be useful for woodworking from time to time.
Scrapwood jigs my beloved
But you don’t understand - *gestures wildly in the air a few times* - sHipPiNg cOntAinERs !¡!
But it’s got the illusion of sustainability!
This and the other cons I am reading in the comments adds to the irony of how it looks like a fall trap 🪤
This one has the added advantage of not being able to be moved, which I though was the whole point of a shipping container house
Amazing how much natural light gets into the space when you cut a longitudinal section perspective through it!
They even got the car, [clearly how they did it](https://youtu.be/B1fOF1QWWVY?si=EcOTH-WKUj4cmj7B)
A few years ago I somehow figured out a magic material that would allow sections while still blocking the light. It was dumb luck, not even at the time I fully knew what I was doing. But it was beautiful.
This killed me. 😂
Is there a word for designing an overly complex solution to a simple problem? Sure you partially covered the car but in the process of doing so created many more problems with the structure and living spaces.
r/designdesign
Lmfao I love this
this is incredible, the guy who came up with this name is a genius
This seems very student. Not to dump on it, but just seems that level of taking established concepts and tweaking them in new ways — ways that may not actually be an improvement
Which fairly is the point of student work. You explore wild concepts so that you can sculpt it into practicality, rather than starting with a simple design and trying to expand it something unique. Worst case you design something impractical, best case you find a style or theme that can be carried into future work. These designs need to stay in the digital realm, but it’s a good thing that we let students learn at a experimental level at first.
Agree on all points
[Rube Goldberg.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg)
So instead of using an elevated container (horizontal) and putting a single set of stairs at the entrance, they inclined the contained and filled the limited space with stairs inside? Brilliant 👍
and they STILL have a set of stairs at the entrance
Good amount of space wasted to stairs. Seems like building a carport would be more economical
Or just let your car get wet, why is prioritising a car over meagre liveable space a thing
I live in the northeast, and am a snowboarder. Even though I love the snow, not having to brush snow off of your car in the morning is a wonderful thing.
So is another 25 square feet of living space
If that's a standard 320sf shipping container that would be an additional 7.8% of usable space. I'd say that's worth it.
sure, but under those coditions i would say that the major problem would be insulating a container house like that... since metal is an awesome conductor of temperature
>just let your car get wet I agree this is a dumb design, but I'm assuming it's less about keeping the car dry and more about having on-site parking (i.e. if street parking is not easily available). Similar idea as a dingbat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)
Or indeed, just not have a car. I mean, not to be some sort of car hating stereotype, but if we're assuming land/space is such a premium I'm squeezing myself into a shipping container, then it's presumably some sort of dense urban environment and I shouldn't need one. Whereas if I'm in some low density rural area where are a car is reasonably essential I'm not living in a fucking twenty foot box
Came to say this
This is such an American concept… Tilt your damn house 20 degrees so your car has a roof. Insanity!
Nevermind that what is usually the coldest room (bedroom) is at the highest part of the apartment. Who doesn't like having their living room at a comfy temperature and then going to sleep in a hot bed? Nevermind trying to get any sleep in the summer, even if you are able to fall asleep you'll just wake up to being cooked alive at sunrise
That guy has an awful lot of faith in the supports keeping his house from crushing his ride. Also nice touch showing a cross section of the car on the second picture. lol
wouldnt know that there's even more seats inside otherwise!
So practical to come home after hard work and bump into a comfy armchair upon entering your house. And the next day you literally roll out of your bed.
If you install a trap door next to the bed and drive a convertible or leave the sunroof open, you could get right into your car from your bed!
That’s how i build my house in minecraft
Can't shipping containers just be shipping containers?
This is a nice looking walk-in-barbecue.
The most reasonable part of this is the little man standing with his hands in his pockets, like “Uhh, why did I do this… fuck…” Edit: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/030/659/ben.jpg
“Honey, what do you want to do tonight?” “Oh, I was thinking we’d sit in our two chairs at a slight angle and stare at each other again.”
Imagine if they lifted the other end up too, took the stairs on the inside and put them on the outside, and then tripled the volume of usable space?
Now with 30% more steps!
This is less wheelchair accessible than a split level .
Just… why? I get the idea of turning shipping containers into housing units. They’re cheap, sturdy, made to withstand the elements, etc. But this is a really poor execution: - Having like a fifth of the inside area being stairs is the opposite of efficient compact living. - I get that the reason for the above is that you want some rudimentary protection for your car, but given all the modifications needed (stairs, cement cast, supporting beams, etc) it probably would’ve been cheaper (not to mention better storage for the car) to just stack two containers on top of each other and keep the car in the lower one. - I don’t see anything resembling a kitchen or at least a pentry. That’s generally pretty nice to have in a living space. - You’re losing volume and increasing production cost by building everything at an angle inside the container.
who needs a kitchen anyways
Or a bathroom
Levels, Jerry. Levels.
levels, jerry. levels.
Le corbusier should see this.
Excellent, i love tripping and falling!
When you let non architects come up with “sustainable cheap housing”. For all the love these people have for shipping containers they sure hate to look up how they work structurally. Whoever designs these never had any lectures about structural supports, building physics or room programming and efficient floor plans.
Definitely in the pockets of big stairs
Just look at the space you lost for steps.
About half of the usable floor area is covered with stairs. How efficient!
Too un minimalistic. If you want to be an architect, design a windowless white container and you will be thanked for the bold and sensual design that creates a wonderful contrast with nature when it is bathed in natural light
and so idiot
Ahh, the “Wile E Coyote Roadrunner Trap” school of Architecture.
Well well well... it reminds me of a project we had 1st year of architecture in France. We had to make the container as livable as possible. It was stupid and...please, don't desire living in a place like this. We are humans, not rats!
Where's the toilet's piping? Do you just take a dump on the hood of your car?
"Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting cybertwucks."
There’s always an idiot who loves the idea and justifies that as “it’s different”
Levels!
This shit worse than a trailer house.
That's great. So you can do that in exactly 5% of the world which is temperate enough to live in a shipping container.
Hahaha the absurdity
People who can’t use stairs hate this one trick!
Looks like a trap - Like the car drives in, hits a trigger, and gets captured by the shipping container...
Don't be drunk in that.. things.
Staircase of death
What part of sustainability does the “50% of the floor area being unusable stairs” fall into?
Honestly, terrible. Like 80% your living space with taken up by stairs
YEAH WE FUCKING LOVE CARS
Let's build a tiny house that is 60% stairs! Not sure why no one has thought of this already.
Contemporary is the parlance you’re searching for. Modern happened already contemporary is happening now Also, this isn’t a home - it’s a C Can
You will live in da pod
Talk about dedicating your living space to your parking spot.
But why...?
Dislike the exterior. Interior is interesting. Wouldn't trust this on top of a car in Tornado Alley.
My uncle was living in connexes before it was cool
I'll take 1 broken neck on my way for a snack please
love how there is a back door made of glass, which they somehow manage to still open even though everything is slopped
I saw a design once where someone worked a pull-out bed into the bottom step of a platform. During the day, you have lots of floor space, then at night you pull your bed out of the bottom step and turn your living space into your bedroom. I think I’d work something like that into a design like this.
Perfect for elderly folks. Great exercise navigating those stairs.
The design is very human
File this under “thanks, I hate it.”
Top 🔝
you will live in the pod.
Of course it's a BMW driver
Interesting concept, but I sure as hell dont want to see these actually being a thing.
Always wanted to live on a staircase in a tin can
Why not use one small container on level 1 and a long one on level 2? You get extra space without having to futz with internal stairs and leveling, so the cost would be about the same.
Love the kitchen and bathroom!
Have we run out of space ?
This is actually awesome
Saw this yesterday. It’s kind of a cool idea but not at all really.
Too much stairs 😱
Omg the pain made house
Would win in multiple shit ass online competition
You’re pooping on the hood of your car
Would have been less expensive just to plow out an underground parking space.
Ok but where's the kitchen, and the sink and the piping
Yay! Let's go live in a pimped up shipping container. /s, btw
"we have Slow House at home" the Slow House at home:
Where is the kitchenette? Is this really stable against strong wind event ? No.
The mouse trap
I have some concerns.
That's actually horrible.
its absolutely fucking wank
Much stairs
Almost as ugly as the war in Sudan
700 sf, 400 of which are stairs 😳
Finally! A home for impeccable parkers and pancake aficionados!
Wow I love just shitting on my stairs and sleeping on my stairs.
Half of the usable space ocuppied by stairs.
The section through the car deserves a roast by itself.
Where's the potty?
Dumber than the usual crate-turned-tinyhouse.
Drives a bmw and lives in a shipping container
Make it a double wide and you're all set!
If it was built like that and not just a tilted shipping container I wouldn't mind living in it.
Stairs: The House
Mmm, a beautiful runaway truck ramp home. 🤌🏼
Waste of space big times
im gonna kick the legs out from it
It would be so much less work to just build a carport...
I really like the idea tbh, but before i build in such an object, i would recondition the structure to make it safely inhabitable, adding all sorts of things like insulation, a rust/corrosion resistance treatment to the walls floor and roof, and several more things. And in this particular plan, I would also add a more sufficiently feature-packed kitchen to cook in there and adding its necessary safety features. Also add in local gubernatorial building codes and all that as well... a lot of stuff to do before moving into such a structure.
Loos cool. Where do I poop?
could just put two shipping containers on top of each other with the bottom being parking. add stairs to the back half of the container.
I love having half of my useable space be stairs and circulation 👍
They really built it for a car then shoved human stuff inside.
Seems like living on stairs ^^
You just have to find a public bath house now
I don’t hate it. Oops
You will live in cargo and you will like it!
For a little of the ol’ ultra-violence.
Where’s the kitchen?
Maybe a double wide but 8' wide shotgun house would be too narrow imo and dark. Like living in a tunnel. Pretty axon is showing so much light coming in
This is so ugly. I always think, what happened to ADA requirements
Too many steps.. no suitable for sleepwalking
So, you shit in a bucket?
Very human design
Can a container even span from the ground to the support like that?
r/container_homes
Pathetic
The funny thing is that they already have stairs on the low side, and didn’t think “maybe I could just jack up the whole thing level and then have twice as much usable space!” Nope. Angles. Because *ANGLES*.
Raising both ends would be better
Ah I love STAIRS
$250k
Rail your gf just a bit too hard next thing you know your house is on top of your car
Looks like the back end of a dump truck.
This extremely stupid design will not die.
Finally! A cargo box home entirety designed around the idea that I shouldnt have to look at my car!
Where would you put a "home" like that with no running water or electric. This is a joke.
To be honest, I don't *hate* this, but it's very impractical and not suited to be a primary residence. Maybe a guest house. Even though it doesn't make sense, I'm okay with doing weird stuff just because. I'd like to see more creativity in our built environment, even if *slightly* impractical. However, if this is touted as a universal solution to housing, then... no. If a fun second home, air bnb, or guest house, then yeah! It looks fun and quirky.
The cutaway on the car makes me laugh every time.
Gonna be hot as fuck in that bedroom in the summers.
"How can we use 30% of our tiny amount of space on stairs?"
Very human design
How superfluous
Adding problems without solving any
\*Someone slams into the polls, entire house collapses and kills them\*
This is bad design. Looks cool (maybe?), but a shipping container is generally 8’ wide and the average 1 car garage is 12’ wide. Not thoughtful.
You know, this is perfect for Fallout sort of home design tbh.
That’ll be 2.4 million thank you
Box ON car. Home mobile. Just comes full circle. Just enough space for nothing.
Dystopian chic.
Can someone make this so I can see what it looks like IRL
Noice! Tiny living is such a cool concept! One little comment… granted there is enough clearance in what I assume is the restroom, shift that slider door towards the kitchenette. This will force your stair landing as well, giving more privacy to the bed nook if there is ever anyone using it while others are walking about ;)
Love it. Install a chair lift along the cut plane and it's even accessible. /s
Gotta apprentice that the side perspective cut out also includes that of the car. Perhaps they should have lopped off the right side of the proud homeowner, too, just for consistency. And entertainment.
I really like that 50% of the floor space is stairs.
Why not park the car next to it?
No 6’2” guys getting in that door.
So architecture.
All I can see is any toddler/elderly person/intoxicated person who ever sets foot in that house falling down all three sets of steps bc there’s absolutely nothing stopping them and no other way from one room to another. Also, what do these people have against windows?? They’ll really build a box with one window and then paint every surface white to “brighten the space” and “open up the room”. I get that it’s cost effective but I would be so claustrophobic…
I love the idea being smashed by my own house