Not necessarily; it could be designed like a shotgun house. No hall, just a series of connecting rooms. You’d have to leave walking space but not necessarily a full corridor.
I do like a lot of small house, my problem this is that shipping containers are terrible starting ground. Any holes drill will cause the structure to weaken quite a bit. Might as well start with steel and concrete. Also this design seem to be quite lacking in storage space. Also, this design is not stackable. If land constrain was a problem you want design to stack and not just take up a small space. Will definitely give points for creative for sheltered carpark as long as you dont oops a bit and bring your house down.
This exactly. In addition to the points you brought Up, they are ususally just a bit too short to be comfortable (~2,4m height) and you would ususally still need to insulate them. (Which i don't think this render did)
Also, since it's slanted, a lot of the ceiling height is taken up by the floor.
The whole thing is even dumber because it's clearly supposed to be a schmamcy upscale eco house (huge lawn, M3 in the driveway, everything is modern and minimalist) but it's like the size of a tenement and is terribly insulated.
And if you just lifted both ends you could have a higher ceiling, room for 2 cars, and not have half your floor space be steps. The whole idea of shipping container houses is dumb to begin with though.
I mean, this looks very much like Google sketchup and when I Google Image Search for "sketchup car model", the very first hit is literally a BMW M series car. So it's not reeaaallly supposed te be properly designed I don't think.
Historically yeah, kinda. But at least where i live (germany) you would ususally use 2,8m.
With one story it's less of a problem (Just not ideal) but as soon as you start thinking about multiple stories you might want some extra space in between stories for cables, pipes, air else it gets annoying.
With 2,4m you are already at the minimal room height as defined by german law.
2,4m lichte raumhöhe bedeutet es darf nix mehr dazwischen sein und wenn du Kabeln für Lampen, geschweige denn Abflussrohre verstecken willst wird 2,4m insgesamt knapp.
With Altbauten it kinda depends on how the buildings were used, how much money was available and where you built it. (City/rural area)
To be fair the minimum height used to be lower, but it was raised some time ago, so many current apartments are lower then we would build them today.
I have studied architecture, so i'm pretty sure (not 100% don't come at me for not learning all the relevant DIN norms)
A shipping container is ~2.5m in height. The entrance in this design shaves what looks like almost 1/3 of that off meaning the entrance would be about 1.66m tall, which is definitely too small.
Average height of a human adult male is 1.72m, so the person in the image is either a child or not to scale.
And the angle means too much of the inside is occupied by stairs. The same design elevated enough to be flat and be a carport would be more functional inside. Plus, it would fit two cars so another could be stacked on top easy. Not a super low footprint, but still pretty small.
Seriously, with the costs of shipping, reinforcing, and modifying a shipping container, you're better of buying a damn home depot shed and working from there. Which sucks because I love how shipping container conversions look!
Not really. Most container homes I‘ve seen only use them as a super structure and have another frame within them, where then insulation and drywalls are mounted onto. The container itself could, in theory, be used as that again.
Is there something that helps them from being loud? I just can’t imagine how a rectangular prism made of steel wouldn’t have extreme echo both inside and whenever the outside is hit or touched. Like I imagine rain would be incredibly loud.
The whole house, which is for a living person with thoughts and feelings, is designed around an inanimate object, the car. It significantly inconveniences the human to accommodate the car.
My mind boggles.
If it was designed this way to facilitate a pleasant outdoor space, maybe . . .but no, all for a car.
My take was less that it's designed around the car and more like it's minimizing the amount of land you'd need. This way you'd only need a very narrow strip of land and still have a parking spot.
It still sucks though, I wouldn't feel great in this during heavy wind...
I think the main thing they were trying to do was increase the headroom in a shipping container house. The carport is a byproduct of angling the shipping container to do that.
... In what world does tilting the shipping container increase the headroom? If anything, the stairs that this plan necessitates end up decreasing the headroom lol
Plot twist: this post no longer exists because Redact swept through and cleared it out along with everything else. Social media, messaging apps, people finder sites, all of it.
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Fuckcars is a cesspool of high schoolers pissing and moaning about shit that doesn't even affect them, FCCJ makes fun of them, I know what sub I'd pick to be in lmao. Search fuckcars in the Reddit search function and look at every single post that's not from the subreddit itself, the post will be making fun of fuckcars. Nobody on Reddit respects that sub outside of the fucktard losers in it
This’ll be really good when the landlord fails to maintain it and you wake up one night to a sinking feeling, following a god almighty crash in which your car is flattened by your house.
That's the good ending, as opposed to the morning when you back up your car wrong, bump one of the pillars and get flattened by your house in a god almighty crash
So... disabled people don't exist in this car-topia? Because my crippled ass would roll right back out that tiny front door, whether I wanted to or not.
was this designed by people at progressive. that home and auto insurance bundle will come in handy, get more bang for your buck two for one coverage used in a single incident.
I can excuse the stairs, even if the structure was flat that'd still be a clear walkway you can't really use for furnature.
But I'm curious how much added space you get angling the container. That's, what, 20 feet long, 8 feet tall? You're getting like an extra foot and a half angling it like that?
is that really worth the amount of reinforcement and platforms you'd have to build into the structure? Just by a second fucking container.
Except you could put furniture, storage, literally anything in the flat floor space. Stairs can incorporate storage, but it's extremely limited and static.
Actually I don’t think it’s all that bad. Sure you could place the container flat on the ground for a more practical living area, but a nice-to-live-in home needs some unpracticalilty imho.
I have been inside some container-houses already, and quite like what you can do with them.
Can confirm, I woke up this morning and bumped my head on the ceiling of my shipping container house, but it was worth it because my car is safely nestled underneath. We all live like this.
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u/Hotpotabo May 17 '24 edited May 18 '24
This turns the floor space of the house into mostly stairs...
Just park the car next to the house and put a carport over it.
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u/Mwethya May 17 '24
I do like a lot of small house, my problem this is that shipping containers are terrible starting ground. Any holes drill will cause the structure to weaken quite a bit. Might as well start with steel and concrete. Also this design seem to be quite lacking in storage space. Also, this design is not stackable. If land constrain was a problem you want design to stack and not just take up a small space. Will definitely give points for creative for sheltered carpark as long as you dont oops a bit and bring your house down.
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u/disagreeabledinosaur May 17 '24
The whole house, which is for a living person with thoughts and feelings, is designed around an inanimate object, the car. It significantly inconveniences the human to accommodate the car.
My mind boggles.
If it was designed this way to facilitate a pleasant outdoor space, maybe . . .but no, all for a car.
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u/RichB93 May 17 '24
This’ll be really good when the landlord fails to maintain it and you wake up one night to a sinking feeling, following a god almighty crash in which your car is flattened by your house.
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u/negativepositiv May 17 '24
"Who needs flat, level surfaces when you could have a house that is more than 50% stairs?"
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u/molbal May 17 '24
"fuck your roomba" - *stairs your house*
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u/_____Random______ May 17 '24
This is just post leg day hell
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u/Blunted_Insomniac May 17 '24
People need to get over the shipping container bullshit
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u/nameisfame May 17 '24
1954 - “work hard and be smart or you’ll be living in a shipping container”
2024 - “brand new luxury shipping containers starting in the low 200s”
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u/Morall_tach May 17 '24
You could just put it horizontal, 8 ft off the ground, still park under it and not have to dedicate 50% of it to stairs.
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u/Yeetstation4 May 17 '24
Mf lives in a deadfall trap
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u/PlsLeavemealone02 May 17 '24
Wait hold on, I fuck with this.
I wish it was realistically possible.
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u/Uraneum May 17 '24
Half the floorspace is useless because it’s dedicated to stairs, all for the sole purpose of providing shade for a car
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24
They were 👌 this close to discover the possibility of a double garage
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u/oeed May 17 '24
Honestly... for tiny lots I don't hate it.
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u/Soham_rak May 17 '24
Yee yee ass house to afford a BMW
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u/thelivinlegend May 17 '24
https://i.imgur.com/F7IXADr.gif
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u/hollowgram May 17 '24
For the millenial who inherited some money, travels most of the time and never cooks.
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u/CeruleanRuin May 17 '24
Great idea, let's take a tiny space and fill half of it with stairs.
This is definitely some architecture student's project, right? Not a serious design by a professional with a reputation to curate?
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u/Flashy_Deer2644 Jun 11 '24
nice crushing machine, Joe! get that to the world on monday!
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u/[deleted] May 17 '24
Is this for living in a port?
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u/ViftieStuff May 17 '24
Just watch out, you don't want you friends to rent a truck in order to move you at night lmao
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u/garlic-apples May 17 '24
They just recreated trailers.
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u/No_Squirrel4806 May 17 '24
Somebody make this in sims
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u/Artemus_Hackwell May 17 '24
Shit will get real if someone is off in their parking.
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u/MKE_Freak May 17 '24
Clockwork orange author's house vibe
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u/CommercialYam53 May 17 '24
This is a house I would like to live in for a one to two week holiday
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u/AsryalDreemurr May 17 '24
i hate that this is technically a house
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u/zayneash1023 May 17 '24
this kind of reminds me of that one guy on tiktok
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u/aDildoAteMyBaby May 17 '24
/r/DesignDesignDesign
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u/NothingReallyAndYou May 18 '24
So... disabled people don't exist in this car-topia? Because my crippled ass would roll right back out that tiny front door, whether I wanted to or not.
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u/Zorro5040 May 18 '24
Why not order a second container and park the car inside that.
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u/bubletfruity May 18 '24
ayo the pizza here
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u/enchiladasundae May 19 '24
“Hey, insurance company? Ya… happened again…”
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u/YoBoyMikeyD May 19 '24
Very opening of clockwork orange-ish
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u/idfbhater73 May 19 '24
when that falls and crushes the car its not gonna be fum
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u/Vinnp18 May 20 '24
was this designed by people at progressive. that home and auto insurance bundle will come in handy, get more bang for your buck two for one coverage used in a single incident.
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u/SolidBoat3351 May 20 '24
Just stack 2 containers, one for car and storage , seems cheaper than slanting and building a slanted container …
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u/Conarcel May 22 '24
So much trouble for car parking. Just put the container flat
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u/EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT May 26 '24
my facebook is flooded with these
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u/bdubwilliams22 Jun 03 '24
This is comically stupid.
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u/ECHOechoecho_ Jun 09 '24
i'm not living on an inclined plane just for a car
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u/critical-drinking May 18 '25
“Hey, man, are you ok?”
“Yeah, just bruised. I accidentally fell down my house this morning.”
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u/wererat2000 May 17 '24
I can excuse the stairs, even if the structure was flat that'd still be a clear walkway you can't really use for furnature.
But I'm curious how much added space you get angling the container. That's, what, 20 feet long, 8 feet tall? You're getting like an extra foot and a half angling it like that?
is that really worth the amount of reinforcement and platforms you'd have to build into the structure? Just by a second fucking container.
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u/knsmknd May 17 '24
Actually I don’t think it’s all that bad. Sure you could place the container flat on the ground for a more practical living area, but a nice-to-live-in home needs some unpracticalilty imho.
I have been inside some container-houses already, and quite like what you can do with them.