Credit: dezeen.com
Shipping containers — utilitarian, strong, revolutionized transport, & reduced costs. But would you want to live in one? Or several of them joined together? Hard as it may be to believe, the home pictured above is built from 4 containers.
It's the Grillagh Water House, designed by architect & farmer, Patrick Bradley & built on his own land.
Grand Designs episode about its construction
More about the container house:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2768293/I-m-desperate-gorgeous-girl-I-just-want-happy-explains-Channel-4-Grand-Designs-team-turn-cover-project.html
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/01/11/grillagh-water-house-patrick-bradley-maghera-northern-ireland-farm-shipping-containers-grand-designs/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/house-home/shipping-container-house-featured-on-grand-designs-wins-top-architecture-award-31164381.html
More houses built from shipping containers
http://www.homedit.com/22-most-beautiful-houses-made-from-shipping-containers/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/surprisingly-gorgeous-homes-made-from-shipping-containers#.fagnmlQegE
http://www.trueactivist.com/a-shipping-container-costs-about-2000-what-these-15-people-did-with-that-is-beyond-epic/
So, wanna live in a container house? / 4 stacked shipping containers Grillagh Water House by Patrick Bradley architect designed design balcony shaded steel fins projects upper storey of this house Northern Ireland architect farmer farmhouse farm house Patrick Bradley built four used shipping containers Patrick Bradley developed Grillagh Water House picturesque site on his own farm near town of Maghera local legislation allows farmers build dwellings on their land designed house employed conventional construction methods architect needed reduce the cost meet budget alternative solution change the idea aesthetics design alternative more affordable idea shipping containers assembled around a steel framework metal boxes extend entrance end of a gravel lane sit on top other pair of containers lee of a gentle slope upper level cantilevers over the lower storey balcony surrounded by steel fins protect interior unwanted solar gain terrace glass balustrade garden below minimal metal staircase house made out of containers sculpture landscape blend in with its surroundings containers upper level clad in grey powder-coated expanded metal sheets covered in panels pre-rusted Corten steel rural part of Northern Ireland materials common in the area grey colour similar many of the agricultural buildings Corten steel cladding blend in with the landscape rock already on the site /
