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Large Home Built Using Two Shipping Containers

You wouldn’t know it from taking a walk around this contemporary home designed by Danish architecture firm Lendager Arkitekter, but it’s primary structure is comprised of two upcycled shipping containers. While many container projects are largely built-out in a factory controlled environment then shipped to their sites as completed products, this house simply used them as blocks with which to configure a much more generous floor plan.

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Here are the containers as they were configured on the site, ready to be built-out with insulation, siding and finishes. This type of hybrid construction lends itself to much more flexibility when it comes to designing spaces.

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Inexpensive, readily available materials were shipped inside the containers that were used to set up the structure, such as the oriented strand board (OSB) seen here on the floors and walls.

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By spanning the space between two containers, an open floor plan is created in a way that cannot be achieved by using a stand alone container, which by itself has very limited dimensional flexibility.

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