04 Shipping Container Home Plans

04 SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES Shipping container homes are intended to provide a temporary housing solution and also serve as a prototype for mass-produced, relocatable emergency and relief housing. These eco-houses have applications to a variety of needs: after flood, fire, earthquake, typhoon, hurricane, tsunami or similar natural disasters; tiny houses, bachelor pads (studios) or remote housing. The main volume of these eco-houses are recycled 20-foot (appx. 6m) long shipping containers – universal modules that are mass-produced, inexpensive, robust and durable. As a basic unit, a shipping container can also be used as required by aid co-ordination agencies or in locations prone to disaster. It is designed to be shipped, and is easily transported by road and rail. All infrastructures for handling the module are available throughout the world. Most importantly, shipping containers are ubiquitous and can be found all over the world. They,  can be extremely inexpensive to obtain; at o