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Shipping Container House by Leger Wanaselja Architects - Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

This shipping container home in Richmond, California was designed to not look like a shipping container home from the outside. The contemporary facade and large windows make it look like a traditional home. The interior provides ample space, with three bedrooms and an open living/dining area, all within 1,350 square feet spread across three stacked containers. Sustainable features include solar passive design, rainwater collection, and recycled and renewable materials.

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Shipping Container House by Leger Wanaselja Architects - Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

This shipping container home in Richmond, California was designed to not look like a shipping container home from the outside. The contemporary facade and large windows make it look like a traditional home. The interior provides ample space, with three bedrooms and an open living/dining area, all within 1,350 square feet spread across three stacked containers. Sustainable features include solar passive design, rainwater collection, and recycled and renewable materials.

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Built out of three insulated shipping containers and  stacked on two levels with a two-story
atrium in the middle, this home packs a lot into a small footprint. Coming in at only 1,350 sq
feet, the home has three good sized bedrooms, and a large open living room which connects
into the long kitchen and dining room. Two 40′ containers are stacked on top of each other
serving as the master bedroom on top and a kitchen/dining area on the ground floor. The other
container is cut in half and stacked to create two more bedrooms. Between the stacks is a
large two story living area with floor to ceiling windows and a staircase and bridge to connect
to the rooms upstairs.

Solar passively designed, deep roof eaves were used to protect from summer solar gain and
operable windows were used to maximize ventilation. As the containers are already insulated,
they act as weatherproof exterior siding, insulation, and structural frame. Insulation was only
needed in the roof and flooring and framing was only done on interior walls and for the
windows. Additional green features include the use of low VOC paints, a 100% wool carpet,
bamboo flooring, a 50%  flyash concrete foundation, blown-in cellulose insulation, stacked
plumbing, roof rainwater collection, high efficiency lighting, solatubes, and a ton more green
features which you can see here.

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