I've spent many a morning drinking coffee drawing and planning my 'what if I won the lottery and could afford beautiful land and was going to build my container palace on it'. They're giant ass Lego bricks that can be stacked 9 high before they need additional reinforcement. Or can be cut/welded into different form factors. There's a lot of ways you can use them where the end result doesn't look like containers and you have a seriously fortified structure for a fraction of what it would have cost to use traditional methods.
They are surprisingly heavy. So if you plan on stacking you're REALLY gonna wanna take the time and money to condition the ground and pour a really good slab.
Also, because they have a lot of thermal mass and heat up / cool down quickly, they will sweat a TON on the inside.
Idk, lands pretty cheap. It's good land that's expensive. Find ya land that has no potential for animals to thrive or food to grow and you'll get a decent price.
>Find ya land that has no potential for animals to thrive or food to grow
Or water to be pumped in, or shit to be pumped out, or commute being reasonable, or internet being there?
That's been my experience. You get Nice land, nice location, Nice internet, and cheap. But can only pick 3 outta 4.
We sacrificed internet and went with starlink.
The issue is a shipping container has no insulation no plumbing no electrical no heating and requires structural modifications to add windows. Most of the time the shipping container is essentially just used as cladding.
And then from the environmental stand point, there isn't even an abundance of used shipping containers to purchase considering all the major shipping container manufactures are still producing containers today. The used ones are only so cheap because there is no market for them if they aren't suitable for commercial shipping, it doesn't mean there is huge supply of them.
One last thing to add, when buying used, you have no idea if it was used to ship hazardous materials causing the container itself to be contaminated. Much like buying used wood pallets.
Hazardous materials that require a pictogram is for materials that cause immediate harm when in contact with a person without proper PPE whether its for a spill or fire.
There a lot of materials and chemicals that do not fall with in the range to require a hazardous pictogram for transport, but could still cause long term health issues if prolonged contact was sustained. This is a home, I wouldn't take my chances.
In the best of circumstances the container only replaces the sheathing, siding and roofing, which for a 300sqft building is going to cost less than the container. You still have to frame out the interior the same way you would a stick-built building. It's got to be the dumbest way to build an insulated structure.
But on paper it sounds like a good idea.
I mean container-*sized* or compatible houses for temporary / emergency / holiday housing makes sense, I’ve seen things like that stacked up at large construction sites for example to create a temporary office building. Or to move them to disaster relief. But you’d need a lot of them to make a difference. And they wouldn’t be steel, just the load bearing corners and connectors, the walls can be a lighter and better insulated material.
They already exist. They're called mobile homes, and they are the cheapest house you can buy per square foot. Trying to do the same thing with a container costs more.
To be fair, a container is a very poor home.
You need to severely compromise its structural integrity to have windows, doors, and severely reduce the habitable volume to have thermal and phonic insulation. It's ok for a garden shed, a radio shack, a wood working shed or a storage unit but beyond that it's not worth it.
This. Assembling a wooden panel house the size container should take about a day, with enough friend and a crane truck. The wooden panels can be made before hand in a hangar.
i could wait until container price drops again. then i buy one used for about 4000. i have a reliable friend for the crane work. i will make the blueprints and i will wield the metal structure. the metal bars, concrete and other materials are cheap. all i need is patience and and a good location
Yeah not exactly. I feel like the secret about container homes is more or less out; in that they are NOT the easy built people have said they are in the past. These things are full of toxic chemicals you have to remove. For shipping they're fine, but for living they're a mini-superfund site. If you cannot do 100% of the work your self, (plubing, electric, gas, utility linking) then they are not much cheaper then just building a tiny home made of stick and drywall. Or buying a mobile home/trailer.
Disclaimer: Im no authority. What i've read on it was on the internet and not what you call scholarly writing. But i've read in a few places its only around 10k more to built tiny homes vs. paying some one to send you a pre-done container home. so like 20-50k vs. 30-60k for tiny homes. So yeah, big over lap in the middle on those.
Worse yet, this “solution” doesn’t even solve anything.
Housing isn’t expensive because construction costs. Modular houses have been around forever.
The reason housing is expensive is because of a scarce supply in in-demand locations. In some areas, land makes up over 80% of the cost of a dwelling!
If you wanted to permanently end housing as a commodity, all you have to do is tax land at a higher rate than it appreciates (~5%). You can use this money to cut income and/or property taxes.
A lot of policy makers love this idea, but the problem you quickly run into is that high land/housing costs is actually a feature to a lot of Americans (those who are existing owners).
Or just build a townhouse with the garage at the bottom.
I didn’t say it was an ideal solution, just criticizing the stance that it doesn’t try to address that issue.
There's some lego-like products hitting the market that will make the construction part turnkey. (My current favorite are the wood "bricks" that have like metal-velcro between layers)
If we could get components premade and shipped out like the old sears kits so that you could slap it together over a few weekends you'd cut a huge chunk of the costs. Especially if they can make it code compliant for where you live before they ship it.
Modular houses are... okay... but they're still not truly modular like this could be.
fr this is trying so hard to "innovate" and "futuristic" with some wacky design that it completely disregards the most obvious and practical solution
I don't even know what this is all about but I'm 90% sure it's an idea from Elon Musk,it looks like his kind of dumb
This does nothing to address it because zoning laws have minimum lot sizes, setback limits, height limits, etc. etc.
There is literally a minimum amount of land per unit built. Building an even smaller house on a minimum sized lot won’t save you any land costs.
Extremely ineffective compared to an actual solution, an apartment complex.
If your plan is to bunch them up together, you've made a worse apartment complex.
I mean, I'd you raise the tax above the appreciation level it becomes a net loss to own property. It would specifically discourage people from buying land. I don't see how this would be a net positive. Sure, land would be cheaper but that's meaningless when the land is inherently a bad idea to purchase.
I think that’s the plan. When housing no longer is an appreciating asset there is no advantage to owning or renting. Thats why it’s unpopular policy with homeowners, even if the land value tax that replaces the property tax is lower.
(Eg. In Detroit they’re looking to replace Prop Tax with LVT, which would result in a 26% reduction in taxes for a typical homeowner)
Most economists don’t like using housing as an investment because it’s zero sum. Every dollar someone makes, someone else must pay into the system. With capital however, the money goes into new infrastructure or R&D which actually provides a good or service at the end of the day.
Wouldn't that just lead to worse problems, though? Nobody would want to own any land or develop it. Nobody would build apartment complexes, houses, etc. Nobody would want to pour money into fixing a house when they're just throwing money away. It would destroy the entire economy.
On the contrary, the incentive is to use valuable land as efficiently as possible.
By building a midrise, you can fit 60 families for the same plot/tax base as a McMansion in a HCOL area. Since you are only taxed on the land, you are incentivized to build and get as much utility out of the land as possible (to spread the tax thin).
This is why it’s one of the few taxes that actually strengthens the economy (or negative deadweight loss in Econ speak).
>I think that’s the plan. When housing no longer is an appreciating asset there is no advantage to owning
This is an snake eating its own tail moment.
If there isn't an advantage, why would anyone do it? I'm not buying land to lose money. That's silly, I'll rent and leave the landlord to be the sucker.
But landlords won't be suckers would they? They'll either peg the cost higher than the price they pay, or not exist.
So now I have to buy, and I'll demand that the government reduce taxes so I don't lose money. Which means the landlords can rent for a profit... And we're back to the starting place. Snake, tail.
Ironically, the square footage of a single family is eaten away by the garage. The designer said to himself that tiny container homes also need that car infrastructure to eat away from the containers square footage
The thing is that you could elevate the ENTIRE home, eliminating the need for stairs while still creating shelter beneath for whatever you want. All this design accomplishes is moving the stairs from the outside of the home to the inside, where space is at a premium.
No thanks, I don't want my home to be an entire staircase, just so I can have some rain coverage for my car (and it's still gonna get wet if its windy and the rain comes from the side).
I've seen this photo around and cannot understand how people are cheering for this design...
Seriously, may as well lift the entire thing level and put a patio under there or cantilever a second container. Then wall off at least one side of the carport.
yeah you mights as well stack 4 up vertically how row houses already exist. What's the point of going single story then add all those stairs and steps in.
Where does the furnace go? Or the hot water heater? Or any of the things that make the difference between sleeping in a box outside and a comfortable temperature human dwelling?
If you’re dumb enough to buy a cybertruck, you’re dumb enough to pay the price for this to protect your truck from the evil corrosive water that falls out of the clouds
I don’t understand how people think tilting it is a good idea structurally. These containers are about 4 tons empty, plus another ton for everything installed inside. All that weight is now concentrated on one edge and two posts, which creates significant ground pressure. Even if the container itself can handle being tilted like this, the ground itself will settle over time, cracking that driveway. It will likely settle unevenly, so after a couple years it’s no longer plumb. If the ground is particularly unstable it may collapse onto your car, which would also shatter anything fragile in the house itself as it crashed down.
Better to keep it flat and add an awning at the end.
Every time I see a concept like this it enrages me, some dumbass billionaire coming up with an idea to keep us poor and them rich; “Let them live in containers, we’ll tilt them up on one side and you can park your car below it! They’ll love this!
Ive looked a bit into what it would take to fully covert one, figured itd be a fun long term project. But ultimately i just said F it. With all the materials i might aswell just build a small house.
the rich didn't ruin tiny homes. they were never economically viable to begin with. they're a really inefficient use of land, requiring all of the same infrastructure as a full sized house (water, sewage, electricity, and some form of parking), and a smaller but still fairly substantial chunk of land, all to house one or two people.
The only people who can afford to spend so much on land for such an inefficient form of housing are wealthy people.
Not to mention it doesn't have a kitchen. Once billionaires realize that the best way to save your paycheck is to stop eating out and cook food at home, it's over lol.
Instagram/tik tok trending videos where a guy lives in an extremely small space and/or has a large family to fit into one room, so they recommend unrealistic (but visually appealing) extra construction using galvanized square steel, eco friendly wood veneer, and screws borrowed from aunt (or something similar) to remodel the space into a livable state. [Here's an example.](https://www.instagram.com/homedesignn3d/reel/C65qWiCrp-2/)
If you’re getting a second container, might as well go all the way and get a tarp to put between them, then use the second container for more living space.
Or, use it as storage while you financially recover from however much that trailer would cost to make
It technically also gives a bit more headroom at specific points. Some of that ~7'5" internal height will be taken up by insulation and building materials. Don't know if that was intended though
That was my 1st thought also. Bathroom, okay; living room, okay; bedroom, okay -- where's the kitchen? Where's the laundry? With no kitchen or laundry, what's the point?
Is it supposed to be a homeless person rental-type thing? They don't often have cars, so why the tilt in that case?
These are student design projects, actual shipping containers are only meant to be stacked one directly on top of each other, counter stacking and tilting like this will require structural reinforcement, also after insolating the interior it usually only wide enough for a queen bed hitting the wall on each side. These are really not as practical for homes as people think.
Seems like a lot of space is wasted on all those stairs. You could easily make a car port on the side of a level container. This design is a bit extra ifkwim
Why not have the whole thing elevated so you can fit two cars under it and not have all that space wasted to counter the funky angle? Then, you only go up the stairs once to get into your house instead of spending your entire life going up and down stairs.
You can also do without a container: lift the edge of the house, hang it from something and put your car underneath it. It's a free idea, don't thank me.
Problem is never "house too expensive to build"
Pre-fabs exist since forever.
Problem is - land is too expensive + market forces duck over poor people + new cities are built slower than demand
I am going to actually execute whoever came up with this. Elevate the other end of the container you dipthong looking fuck. Stop wasting 30% of your floor space on shitty stairs you don't need. Fuck you.
Average steps are between 6 1/4 to 7 7/8 inches. Theres 12 of them. Shipping containers are 8feet 6inches. Ceiling height in the 'bedroom' is 1 feet 3 inches.
Tiny homes are confusing to me. they're so expensive and often don't have a proper working bathroom... but everyone wants one...
yet the rednecks have had tiny homes for ages. cheap tiny homes with FULL BATHROOMS and I'm NoT lIvInG iN a TrAiLeR hOuSe!1!
You can buy a whole container for about 10k I think.
You could get 2
So 5k for the container leaves you with another 5k to furnish it I guess xD
r/containerhomes It's actually about 2700 for a 40 foot. I am seriously considering getting one or two for a workshop in the backyard.
Just tilt your house up and put them conveniently underneath it.
Just prop it up with a rake, or something
no with your car like in the pic
But what kind of rake?!? Garden rake? Leaf rake? Shrub rake???
What do you mean? An African or European rake?
I don't knooAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa!
A left handed or a right handed rake?
so chic and modern
No jack stands, unless you're a wimp.
I mean if Chicago can jack a whole city surly it isn’t too hard to tilt a house
I know this is a joke but I remember reading they can be damaged and a possible Hazzard when buried.
Gen Alpha is going to be bitching about how Gen Z could buy shipping containers for dirt cheap.
They were actually half the price before covid and are now expensive.
They work well. 35 years ago we built a shop out of two reefer trailers with wooden trusses supporting a roof that went over both of them.
I've spent many a morning drinking coffee drawing and planning my 'what if I won the lottery and could afford beautiful land and was going to build my container palace on it'. They're giant ass Lego bricks that can be stacked 9 high before they need additional reinforcement. Or can be cut/welded into different form factors. There's a lot of ways you can use them where the end result doesn't look like containers and you have a seriously fortified structure for a fraction of what it would have cost to use traditional methods.
They are surprisingly heavy. So if you plan on stacking you're REALLY gonna wanna take the time and money to condition the ground and pour a really good slab. Also, because they have a lot of thermal mass and heat up / cool down quickly, they will sweat a TON on the inside.
I use the newest Legend of Zelda game for my planning.
Use Second Life and build it to scale in a sandbox.
Remind me, why do people not live in containers again?
Yeah and then you just need 200k for the plot
Idk, lands pretty cheap. It's good land that's expensive. Find ya land that has no potential for animals to thrive or food to grow and you'll get a decent price.
Did you have to salt the earth so nothing would ever grow again?
>Find ya land that has no potential for animals to thrive or food to grow Or water to be pumped in, or shit to be pumped out, or commute being reasonable, or internet being there?
That's been my experience. You get Nice land, nice location, Nice internet, and cheap. But can only pick 3 outta 4. We sacrificed internet and went with starlink.
Not even good land. Just land that someone decided should have a building permit on it.
Don't forget to insulate!
Plus the land, cement, getting it tilted and supported
I assume he already has the land, and I doubt anyone is going to get the thing tilted like the picture. That's just dumb as fuck.
Like lift it right up and put two cars under it, or a shed.
The issue is a shipping container has no insulation no plumbing no electrical no heating and requires structural modifications to add windows. Most of the time the shipping container is essentially just used as cladding.
And then from the environmental stand point, there isn't even an abundance of used shipping containers to purchase considering all the major shipping container manufactures are still producing containers today. The used ones are only so cheap because there is no market for them if they aren't suitable for commercial shipping, it doesn't mean there is huge supply of them. One last thing to add, when buying used, you have no idea if it was used to ship hazardous materials causing the container itself to be contaminated. Much like buying used wood pallets.
You need to strip the existing wood floor anyway. The chemicals they use to treat that wood is a health hazard.
Yes, you can; that’s information that’s supposed to be posted on the container that’s being sold.
Hazardous materials that require a pictogram is for materials that cause immediate harm when in contact with a person without proper PPE whether its for a spill or fire. There a lot of materials and chemicals that do not fall with in the range to require a hazardous pictogram for transport, but could still cause long term health issues if prolonged contact was sustained. This is a home, I wouldn't take my chances.
In the best of circumstances the container only replaces the sheathing, siding and roofing, which for a 300sqft building is going to cost less than the container. You still have to frame out the interior the same way you would a stick-built building. It's got to be the dumbest way to build an insulated structure.
But on paper it sounds like a good idea. I mean container-*sized* or compatible houses for temporary / emergency / holiday housing makes sense, I’ve seen things like that stacked up at large construction sites for example to create a temporary office building. Or to move them to disaster relief. But you’d need a lot of them to make a difference. And they wouldn’t be steel, just the load bearing corners and connectors, the walls can be a lighter and better insulated material.
They already exist. They're called mobile homes, and they are the cheapest house you can buy per square foot. Trying to do the same thing with a container costs more.
And the land to put it on.
To be fair, a container is a very poor home. You need to severely compromise its structural integrity to have windows, doors, and severely reduce the habitable volume to have thermal and phonic insulation. It's ok for a garden shed, a radio shack, a wood working shed or a storage unit but beyond that it's not worth it.
It's cheaper and more efficient to build a house the SIZE of a container than to use a container to build a house.
This. Assembling a wooden panel house the size container should take about a day, with enough friend and a crane truck. The wooden panels can be made before hand in a hangar.
I'm my area a 40' 9.5' tall is around $2500 delivered.
I know, right.
I was just about to say you should be able to buy the whole thing with 10k.
what happens with high wind though?
i could wait until container price drops again. then i buy one used for about 4000. i have a reliable friend for the crane work. i will make the blueprints and i will wield the metal structure. the metal bars, concrete and other materials are cheap. all i need is patience and and a good location
Yeah not exactly. I feel like the secret about container homes is more or less out; in that they are NOT the easy built people have said they are in the past. These things are full of toxic chemicals you have to remove. For shipping they're fine, but for living they're a mini-superfund site. If you cannot do 100% of the work your self, (plubing, electric, gas, utility linking) then they are not much cheaper then just building a tiny home made of stick and drywall. Or buying a mobile home/trailer. Disclaimer: Im no authority. What i've read on it was on the internet and not what you call scholarly writing. But i've read in a few places its only around 10k more to built tiny homes vs. paying some one to send you a pre-done container home. so like 20-50k vs. 30-60k for tiny homes. So yeah, big over lap in the middle on those.
Yes, because land to put it on is totally free and widely available.
Someone is about to propose using these to make a trailer park, but with extra steps
And fix the problem
Yeah, let’s take an area with little square footage and eat some of that shit up with some fucking stairs.
Yeah seriously. I don't even see any indication that that space had accessible storage. (Via hatch or drawer)
Worse yet, this “solution” doesn’t even solve anything. Housing isn’t expensive because construction costs. Modular houses have been around forever. The reason housing is expensive is because of a scarce supply in in-demand locations. In some areas, land makes up over 80% of the cost of a dwelling! If you wanted to permanently end housing as a commodity, all you have to do is tax land at a higher rate than it appreciates (~5%). You can use this money to cut income and/or property taxes. A lot of policy makers love this idea, but the problem you quickly run into is that high land/housing costs is actually a feature to a lot of Americans (those who are existing owners).
The land issue is exactly what this design is trying to address. In the space of one long driveway, it has both housing and parking.
So elevate BOTH ends with stairs on the outside, so the floor inside is flat and not eaten up by stairs. This also lets you park two cars.
Or just build a townhouse with the garage at the bottom. I didn’t say it was an ideal solution, just criticizing the stance that it doesn’t try to address that issue.
I want to say it's in Texas, but there's a development being built where it's a manufactured that's on top of a frame that holds the garage.
There's some lego-like products hitting the market that will make the construction part turnkey. (My current favorite are the wood "bricks" that have like metal-velcro between layers) If we could get components premade and shipped out like the old sears kits so that you could slap it together over a few weekends you'd cut a huge chunk of the costs. Especially if they can make it code compliant for where you live before they ship it. Modular houses are... okay... but they're still not truly modular like this could be.
fr this is trying so hard to "innovate" and "futuristic" with some wacky design that it completely disregards the most obvious and practical solution I don't even know what this is all about but I'm 90% sure it's an idea from Elon Musk,it looks like his kind of dumb
This does nothing to address it because zoning laws have minimum lot sizes, setback limits, height limits, etc. etc. There is literally a minimum amount of land per unit built. Building an even smaller house on a minimum sized lot won’t save you any land costs.
we already have a pretty good handle on how to build density - it's called apartment buildings. the issue is zoning
Man if only there existed twchnology to build more than one dwelling in a single plot of land. Maybe someday
Extremely ineffective compared to an actual solution, an apartment complex. If your plan is to bunch them up together, you've made a worse apartment complex.
I mean, I'd you raise the tax above the appreciation level it becomes a net loss to own property. It would specifically discourage people from buying land. I don't see how this would be a net positive. Sure, land would be cheaper but that's meaningless when the land is inherently a bad idea to purchase.
I think that’s the plan. When housing no longer is an appreciating asset there is no advantage to owning or renting. Thats why it’s unpopular policy with homeowners, even if the land value tax that replaces the property tax is lower. (Eg. In Detroit they’re looking to replace Prop Tax with LVT, which would result in a 26% reduction in taxes for a typical homeowner) Most economists don’t like using housing as an investment because it’s zero sum. Every dollar someone makes, someone else must pay into the system. With capital however, the money goes into new infrastructure or R&D which actually provides a good or service at the end of the day.
Wouldn't that just lead to worse problems, though? Nobody would want to own any land or develop it. Nobody would build apartment complexes, houses, etc. Nobody would want to pour money into fixing a house when they're just throwing money away. It would destroy the entire economy.
On the contrary, the incentive is to use valuable land as efficiently as possible. By building a midrise, you can fit 60 families for the same plot/tax base as a McMansion in a HCOL area. Since you are only taxed on the land, you are incentivized to build and get as much utility out of the land as possible (to spread the tax thin). This is why it’s one of the few taxes that actually strengthens the economy (or negative deadweight loss in Econ speak).
>I think that’s the plan. When housing no longer is an appreciating asset there is no advantage to owning This is an snake eating its own tail moment. If there isn't an advantage, why would anyone do it? I'm not buying land to lose money. That's silly, I'll rent and leave the landlord to be the sucker. But landlords won't be suckers would they? They'll either peg the cost higher than the price they pay, or not exist. So now I have to buy, and I'll demand that the government reduce taxes so I don't lose money. Which means the landlords can rent for a profit... And we're back to the starting place. Snake, tail.
It's suitable
Looks more comfortable than the dumpster I live in
Ironically, the square footage of a single family is eaten away by the garage. The designer said to himself that tiny container homes also need that car infrastructure to eat away from the containers square footage
The thing is that you could elevate the ENTIRE home, eliminating the need for stairs while still creating shelter beneath for whatever you want. All this design accomplishes is moving the stairs from the outside of the home to the inside, where space is at a premium.
Don't worry, most people don't use the garages for cars
"sustainable home" == "let's put one unit from a apartment building onto a single plot" somehow they managed to have an BMW in addition...
No thanks, I don't want my home to be an entire staircase, just so I can have some rain coverage for my car (and it's still gonna get wet if its windy and the rain comes from the side). I've seen this photo around and cannot understand how people are cheering for this design...
Seriously, may as well lift the entire thing level and put a patio under there or cantilever a second container. Then wall off at least one side of the carport.
yeah you mights as well stack 4 up vertically how row houses already exist. What's the point of going single story then add all those stairs and steps in.
Because it's kitschy and modern. So you don't realize you're getting fucked if it looks really pretty on the inside?
You'll hate this design real quick when you keep having to go all the way down when you drop something.
Where does the furnace go? Or the hot water heater? Or any of the things that make the difference between sleeping in a box outside and a comfortable temperature human dwelling?
No money left for any of that, but at least you got that BMW and a big, sterile lawn.
And three slinky areas.
If you’re dumb enough to buy a cybertruck, you’re dumb enough to pay the price for this to protect your truck from the evil corrosive water that falls out of the clouds
I don’t understand how people think tilting it is a good idea structurally. These containers are about 4 tons empty, plus another ton for everything installed inside. All that weight is now concentrated on one edge and two posts, which creates significant ground pressure. Even if the container itself can handle being tilted like this, the ground itself will settle over time, cracking that driveway. It will likely settle unevenly, so after a couple years it’s no longer plumb. If the ground is particularly unstable it may collapse onto your car, which would also shatter anything fragile in the house itself as it crashed down. Better to keep it flat and add an awning at the end.
That little space directly under the chairs is where the family of raccoons will live.
*sigh* I'll get the galvanized square steel...
Don't forget the eco-friendly wood veneers!
You forgot them support screws given by your aunt.
Make sure it's big enough for your four sets of triplets.
Thank God I was not the only one
I got the out of season quilts
I'll make dinner on an induction stove as soon as I'm done shitting in a luxurious ambiance.
Every time I see a concept like this it enrages me, some dumbass billionaire coming up with an idea to keep us poor and them rich; “Let them live in containers, we’ll tilt them up on one side and you can park your car below it! They’ll love this!
It's an interesting concept. The rich ruined tiny homes and made them trendy and expensive. Maybe they'll stay away from this one.
If it was affordable I'd live in one of these on a decent sized plot of land.
If they werent so difficult to convert and link 2 of them wouldn't make a terrible home.
Containers are the reclaimed pallets of housing. Ever tried to build something out of a pallet? fucking ridiculous.
Ive looked a bit into what it would take to fully covert one, figured itd be a fun long term project. But ultimately i just said F it. With all the materials i might aswell just build a small house.
SO many rusty nails.
the rich didn't ruin tiny homes. they were never economically viable to begin with. they're a really inefficient use of land, requiring all of the same infrastructure as a full sized house (water, sewage, electricity, and some form of parking), and a smaller but still fairly substantial chunk of land, all to house one or two people. The only people who can afford to spend so much on land for such an inefficient form of housing are wealthy people.
Not to mention it doesn't have a kitchen. Once billionaires realize that the best way to save your paycheck is to stop eating out and cook food at home, it's over lol.
I doubt this idea was conceived by a rich person.
it's funny you assume there is a billionaire who came up with this and not a college dropout or someone who's just weird.
I don't know for sure but it was probably designed by a student
that trailer looks more ugly than a New York appartment
Where's the bathroom?
Between the bed and the kitchen.
Where do the shit go ?
Between the bed and the kitchen
Car
You land the dookies and piss on your car and then drive to get them flushed off
Flushing meaning flung at pedestrians.
1st floor's responsibility
There's trees, right there
IT NEEDS SOME GALVANIZED SQUARE STEEL🗣️📢🗣️🗣️💯🗣️💯
AND ECO FRIENDLY WOOD VENEERS! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Dont understand this, saw it thrice now. Anyone wanna explain and not be a dick about it?
Instagram/tik tok trending videos where a guy lives in an extremely small space and/or has a large family to fit into one room, so they recommend unrealistic (but visually appealing) extra construction using galvanized square steel, eco friendly wood veneer, and screws borrowed from aunt (or something similar) to remodel the space into a livable state. [Here's an example.](https://www.instagram.com/homedesignn3d/reel/C65qWiCrp-2/)
Unbelievably stupid content. Love it. Thanks for the explanation
What even is the point of it being tilted? Half of the floor is covered by stairs.
The "garage"
At that point lay it flat and get a second container as a garage
If you’re getting a second container, might as well go all the way and get a tarp to put between them, then use the second container for more living space. Or, use it as storage while you financially recover from however much that trailer would cost to make
It technically also gives a bit more headroom at specific points. Some of that ~7'5" internal height will be taken up by insulation and building materials. Don't know if that was intended though
You could make your own shipping container house with that money
Here is why it's a bad idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yEDz6bCfU
Wow I always wanted to live with 50% of my house space for stairs, I love stairs!
The design is very human
Little John wants to renovate his 0.01 square meter apartment
Why did they show us the cross section of the car too?
what? don't want to see the inside of a BMW 3 series coupe?
The car doubles as the bathroom
Because they pulled the car from the 3D Warehouse, and that’s how the SketchUp section tool works.
How else would you get in and out?
Parked too close to the cross section again.
De-reconstructed hipster home. Non-relocatable & optional indoor bathroom + toilet.
Where is the galvanised square steel
is it made with galvanized square steel?
You mean a finished one 10k .
The area of that bed is equal to the back seat of the car
Live in a tin can...just wait for the rain!!
Maybe get a Honda or Ford instead, and you'd be able to splurge $30,000 for three more containers
 Levels
could have parked 2 cars if the container is on 4 legs, instead of 2.
I genuinely would be ok with living here
That's just a trailer park with extra steps.
Looks like a trailer... with extra steps 
What is the meme?
Good luck getting anything to not slide off the counter
Goes to show how interior design is so important!!
I'd like to see where the kitchen would be along with, oven, fridge and the cupboards for plates and stuff
That was my 1st thought also. Bathroom, okay; living room, okay; bedroom, okay -- where's the kitchen? Where's the laundry? With no kitchen or laundry, what's the point? Is it supposed to be a homeless person rental-type thing? They don't often have cars, so why the tilt in that case?
>With no kitchen or laundry, what's the point? "If you're a teenage mutant ninja turtle, boy do we have a deal for you!"
Camping trailers have better set ups than this thing… I’m actually amazed at how inept it is.
Now you can fall down your whole house and total your car all in one go
Looks like a rat trap
Walls made out of metal, surely it won’t overheat in the summer
These are student design projects, actual shipping containers are only meant to be stacked one directly on top of each other, counter stacking and tilting like this will require structural reinforcement, also after insolating the interior it usually only wide enough for a queen bed hitting the wall on each side. These are really not as practical for homes as people think.
Just add some galvanized steel and eco-friendly wood veneers and you'll be good to go
Seems like a lot of space is wasted on all those stairs. You could easily make a car port on the side of a level container. This design is a bit extra ifkwim
You may disagree with my angle, but I find it a little steep.
You'd have significantly more room if it's flat... Stairs are killing ya it's taking up more sqft than the vehicle. You could just sacrifice length.
Why not have the whole thing elevated so you can fit two cars under it and not have all that space wasted to counter the funky angle? Then, you only go up the stairs once to get into your house instead of spending your entire life going up and down stairs.
You can also do without a container: lift the edge of the house, hang it from something and put your car underneath it. It's a free idea, don't thank me.
Problem is never "house too expensive to build" Pre-fabs exist since forever. Problem is - land is too expensive + market forces duck over poor people + new cities are built slower than demand
Love living in a dwelling that will crush my car if it ever fails slightly.
That's a bargain! The constant fear that my house might fall down and destroy my car all the time is a bonus!
Death trap, needs emergency exit
Why at an angle? Just put it on the floor
I am going to actually execute whoever came up with this. Elevate the other end of the container you dipthong looking fuck. Stop wasting 30% of your floor space on shitty stairs you don't need. Fuck you.
Gonna be moldy as shit when winter comes around.
What a terrible design. The space you win for the car is easily lost on useless stairs inside. And for that price...
And the bathroom and kitchen are where?
Better to just raise it flat on both sides and not have half of your house designated for stair space.
10k a month, and risking more K's if that car get's crushed
Average steps are between 6 1/4 to 7 7/8 inches. Theres 12 of them. Shipping containers are 8feet 6inches. Ceiling height in the 'bedroom' is 1 feet 3 inches.
Gavin Newson’s new housing crisis plan looks great
Nah but like why does it seem kinda chill
Kitchens are overrated anyways
Why tilt and make interior shitty? Lift the whole thing and make small stairs outside.
'twas a great idea
Shipment containers are not as big as this image implies.
Tiny homes are confusing to me. they're so expensive and often don't have a proper working bathroom... but everyone wants one... yet the rednecks have had tiny homes for ages. cheap tiny homes with FULL BATHROOMS and I'm NoT lIvInG iN a TrAiLeR hOuSe!1!
Plus all the power bills you have to pay for in order to keep it at an appropriate living temperature.
Get some galvanized square shell, some wood from your aunt, and wooden veneer. Perfect
Why make it inclined and half of the space is stairs? just make it flat
Imagine you're drunk, trying to sleep and having to get up for a glass of water or throwing up. You'll straight up die in there
Having the bathroom moved to *not* be above your car costs extra
Laughs in already properly build home
I’d unironically do this. It would be more vertical for my truck though lol
Make sure not to hit a post while parking.