Residential Shipping Container Primer (RSCP™)

Functioning somewhere between the style of a summer street fair (common in the city) and a fully operating retail venue, the Uniqlo container stores were located in nine choice New York neighborhoods, including the West Village, Jones Beach, Cobble Hill Brooklyn, Coney Island. Each had vertical strip windows cut into the exterior and was powered by an external generator. The door and ramp opened and closed via hydraulic struts and the insides were lined inside with laminated cubes for shelves.

Freitag started to make tarp-bags in 1993, inspired from a view onto the transit-bridge. In 2006 they decided to sell bags-made-from-tarps in a shop-made-from-containers. Completely built from 17 rusty, recycled freight-containers, selected in person in Hamburg and brought to Zurich by rail. Stacked low enough not to violate the city’s restriction on high-rise, high enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.

Twenty-four shipping containers are retrofitted and transformed into PUMA CITY, a transportable retail and event building that is traveling around the world along with the 70-foot long Puma sailing boat – il Mostro - during the one-year long 2008 Volvo Ocean Race, started in Alicante, Spain in October 2008.

Located in South Melbourne, Australia, and designed by Phooey Architects, is the green Children’s Activity Centre at Skinners Playground.  This piece of shipping container architecture is made of four cargo shipping containers.  The environment is a familiar one: micro-landscapes, sheds and objects that are somewhere between toy and assault course. Color is everywhere, in equal strengths and volumes so that no single color dominates, and the compound is still shrill when the kids are absent.

The Fawood Children’s Center provides, under one roof, a nursery for 3-5 year olds, nursery facilities for autistic and special needs children, and a Children’s Center with adult learning services.

The primary structure is a trapezoid shed enclosure, which takes the form of a steel portal frame structure with a deep overhanging roof, formed of a mix of opal polycarbonate roof cladding and bright pink powder-coated profiled steel cladding, on galvanized steel purlins and portal frame.

The Nomadic Museum is a, well, nomadic museum, one that can be easily taken apart and rebuilt in different places. The walls on the building are created from stacked and staggered shipping containers, with paper tube columns and a fabric ceiling.  Despite its size, tt is a piece of mobile architecture which is easily assembled and disassembled and then shipped (contents included) in the same shipping containers that make up the walls.

The 12 Container House is a custom prefab green home created from 12 recycled shipping containers.

Devised by Urban Space Management, Container City™ is an innovative modular architecture system that creates affordable green, prefab accommodation for a range of uses.  This is one of Urban Space Management's first Container City projects.  Info from their website, "Containers are an extremely flexible method of construction, being both modular in shape, extremely strong structura