On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home
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- Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens Port Piraeus, Nastasia Spyropoulou created a passive solar container home that is topped by a living roof and has little need of traditional heating/cooling.
Her prototype Cocoon Module is made from a used (though good condition) 40-foot shipping container. She tried to retain the container feel, leaving the end doors in place, though they can be opened to reveal a sliding glass door. At the opposite side she cut a small bathroom window for cross ventilation. The tiny home is well-insulated and the living roof provides an additional layer of insulation so the temperature remains stable most of the year.
In order to ensure that the home can be transported with ease, Spyropoulou added supporting beams to one side which means the containers can be stacked for a second floor and additional living space at a later date.
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One of the best container home designs I’ve ever seen. Thank you for your inventiveness and accomplishments.
She did a great job designing...even put some structural engineering on the table with the bracing on the bottom of the container. Finishes are exceptional, also. Really a 1st class piece of work.
Wow! As containers go this is quite extraordinary. I love the original features, the minimalist interior and the green roof! I could see myself living full-time in a home like this.
Its so cool, love the container style tiny house...
I am absolutely in love with this house! The container, the design, everything!
I found this video (almost) by luck. Within first 30 sec. (except from the amazing kind of work, which magnetised me) ...I felt like I was hearing a greek person to talk...so I did a little scroll down and
BoomShakalaka !!! She is greek!!!
Hell of fuckin' awesome amazing job! Congrats and respect Nastazia!!!
Love this. The ability to put two or more together in different configurations is also so important - small and narrow is fine provided you can have sections, rooms, and a bit of peace, quiet and privacy. I'd love to live in a couple of these units!
Minimalist - Great sense of Efficiency and Safety, the doors are solid, powerful and outstanding.
Sustainable with minimum intrusion on the ground itself. Mobile! So avantguard!
Another beautiful production, Kirsten!
I always enjoy watching your work.
Lately, I have really loved seeing the films pertaining to families who are renovating ancient ruins.
Absolutely fascinating!
You have one of the very best channels on TH-cam!
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Some of the best shipping container houses I've seen. I really love that lime-rendered one.
Container house are cool for sure, love the tiny house look.
I believe this container is more of a commercial prototype. They have installed it outside a COCOMAT exhibition space. COCOMAT is a local company which produces mattresses and other bedding items from sustainable materials. That is why it's located next to a highway. Probably the company is trying to expand its activities to eco-friendly houses and they are using this container-home as a life size demo for potential customers.
Edit: I should also add that there's an ulterior motive that the architect does not mention. Due to the really strict planning regualations in the Aegean Islands, it is really difficult and rather expensive for somenone, either an individual homeowner or a business owner to construct a "traditional" residence. Structures like this one can be "installed" to a plot with minimal paperwork, offering a convenient alternative, especially as temporary housing during the summer months.
Yeah as a demo it's really good.
Agreed, it really is a great prototype.
I'm thrilled to see that the container home concept is getting traction worldwide.
This is just one possible iteration, of course, with an infinite number of possible variations based upon a single container module.
This, alone, is really exciting, but I can hardly wait to see what the future holds, with regard to future architectural concepts developed based on the container module concept.
In the years to come, brilliant minds, the world over, will continue coming up with countless takes on sustainable and enjoyable homes based on this notion.
she is explaining all of that already at 7:49 min
all this was explained in the video lol
This is definitely a commercial prototype, looks like a prebuilt Kitchen you'd see in Ikea.
I like those automatic hurricane shutters on the outside of the windows. This one was really nicely done with all that extra steel added in a factory setting. Those doors and windows look like they could last 100 years.
Love this design, love the way it closes up with the shutters for safety, great job 😀
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I gotta say you guys made or stumbled into about as good a job as anyone could have, you get to travel all over the world, take your family with you, and get paid for doing it, that's pretty cool.
This is the best thing i have ever seen in the internet.... thanks for that.....
I checked the site as far as cost it seems very reasonable. I love the style and how it is very functional. I could live in one.
Ya me too...,
I appreciate the murphy bed for the space conservation. The living room is great. Here in the midwest of USA, we must be mindful of tornadoes and other high winds.
A east/west placement will present an opportunity for a deck on the south side for extra space, a well insulated north wall., a sleeping area on the east for morning sun wake-up. Solar array on roof, water storage for wash, cook, toilet to septic tank. This would work in the woods or edge of woods in a pasture or below a pond bank.
In Germany, they put those shutters down at night. If you look closely the shutters are also perforated which can be used to get good airflow and still be secure.
I wish they were popular in the states.
Many urban stores have similar roll-down protection at night
I think this is a good design. The timber cladding would have to go as in a wet climate woodrot would be a big problem. I love the sliding doors and the shutters. I priced these shutters in Ireland and they were astronomical. Even the cost of the doors alone has to be very expensive. All in all well done.
Great video. I was just reading an article about this unit and really glad to see a filmed tour.
I would have liked seeing the container filmed from the inside with the doors closed, to test the efficacy of the sliding glass door's soundproofing.
I am obsessed with containers. This is excellent!
I'm single with no children, this would be perfect for me.
who normal live in a container? rich to villas, container for pooor people . NWO welcom
I need one myself!
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to learn about container home designs try Jadonite Shipping Container Buddy (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my friend got amazing success with it.
I kept watching just to see what the dog was doing. Looks like the pup likes it.
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We really enjoyed the video we think it's really cool how you can take different materials and make a home out of it. thanks for sharing.
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I wonder what the cost would be in USD?
I think it is interesting that she said that it was more expensive to do the container over normal steel construction. I actually like the layout (other than the bed crossing the entire width.) By itself it is minimal. As an enclosed foundation of a big outdoor living space it would be really nice. I could see even foregoing the seating area and expanding the kitchen into the living space.
ikr then why would you do it
The push to use shipping containers is primary recycling, building using more sustainable materials, and low initial costs...
You are usually initially paying much less for the shipping container, because they are usually used and being sold for a fraction of what they cost to build originally.
But there's a threshold when converting them into livable structures where the costs rise higher than other options and the limitations of the design options become apparent and that usually overlaps because that's usually the point that you have to do significant changes to the container to get past its limitations...
A lot is still possible below that threshold. It's just hard to avoid going over that threshold but if you can keep below it then it's something to consider...
It's just something to get used to with construction that options may be niche and may not apply to every type of building you may want to construct.
I know of a few where labour and material costs are lowered because people have done alot of the work themselves and spent hours combining the internet for recycled or special prices on materials.
I know a guy who lives in a semi trailer in Idaho. In the 1960s he played drums while I played guitar in Seattle. I think it is the last step down before homelessness.
So kewl, there are so many different ways to build a home.
You are right they got expensive still kewl tho :-) @dino macioci
I only see 1 problem waiting to happen with this, it has no escape hatch. Scenario: you open the container for habitation, you are using the sliding doors as ingress and egress so the doors at the end of the container are secured closed, you close the shutters for privacy for the evening, you lose power or the motor malfunctions. How do you get out of the container??
Use the bathroom window
She said if the shutters are down and there's a power outage, you have to exit from the bedroom door. But that also locks from the outside. Wouldn't be much fun in the case of a fire!
The bathroom window can be opened.
The shutters also are manual
hel1nas she said manual from the outside
@@aljowen Not everyone could get through it, one reason or another.
Simple answer would be to have the end doors lockable from the inside only.
I love it! I like the look of a shipping container, so I think I’d just insulate from the inside and keep the original look. Great job!!
who normal live in a container? rich to villas, container for pooor people . NWO welcom
Interesting product. From an accessibility point of view it’s a great design and a lot more appealing than a tiny house.
Solar panels on the top would make more sense I think. Also wouldn't the soil at the top corrode the metal? I mean, I'm just saying.....other than this, this is awesome!! One weakness as a business is that....I believe it would be difficult to ship these, would need an overseas branch. I wish you all the bless, God bless! I am interested in this!
Best conversion I've seen.
No shade to her I’ve been defending her in the comments but if this is the best you’ve seen you need to watch more conversions
@Viktor Shutters are operated Manual and Electric, she said that when she was asked if the batteries run out at 05:00
I think its really cool when you go to a house where the people live in them. Ask them to mov in for at least 2 weeks before the interview.
Thank you for your videos. I always enjoy them. I do wish you'd upgrade your sound equipment though. This one especially, I heard mostly wind and road noise and could barely hear the voices.
Nice design.. Simple and fit for purpose
hi ... how much does this version cost ??
Beautifully done. She is great.
i really like the doors especially the shutters
Love your video's....very nice and informative! Is there a way to get an average cost estimate when doing these videos? Thank you and blessings to you!
This and the examples shown on the laptop are the best designs using shipping containers that I have ever seen.
I'm not a fan of the seeded roof and would use the flat rood once sun insulated to mount solar PV panels along its length you could even add a passive solar water heater to reduce you water heating costs
Question, when you close the shutters, and say the power goes out. Can you open the shutters from the inside. Also, can you open the double doors that lock from the inside?
Love this. Was in Athens as a hostel runner from December 1990 through January 1991. Running to Piraeus as well. An odd time as it was during the run up to the first "Desert Storm" war in Iraq. Wonderful country and people. Would love to return.
Awesome build
You can make barn doors on a rail to cover sliders. The cost to support one wall of sliders.
It's a decent prototype. I'd get one for a vacation spot. Could do without the shutters though.
Space saving furniture in any tiny house is a must I think at this point
Great use of space. I know it's only a prototype but the cladding would look better if it was layed vertically! Lovely layout of interior.
It's really awesome work guys ..I have a query ? Is it possible to build one more space like a tiny room in terrace ? With solar panels ...from India...
I think this would work much better doubled up on the longest side. This is one of the most cramped feeling tiny/container homes I've ever seen. Shame they didn't have in-person examples of those other configurations. Love that ceiling light though.
I was interested to see "other configurations" aswell.
…yea, who has created nothing.…on scale.
I love the shipping container houses. But not the tiny ones. Big ups to the welded together spacious ones. Big down to the smaller than a double wide trailer ones
Love their container house designs...
Where do you source the shutter doors?
How is the roof garden doing? Any issues?
I just have to say every time you guys bring it.look the Edet and look of the video.amazing job
how do you sorted out the build up of moisture inside of it?
Not bad, but I think I would rather have a bunch of smaller holes in the walls and ceiling than two giant windows. Not enough privacy, and I wouldn't rely on those automatic shutters either.
I think I'd also prefer more deliberate sectioning and doors inside the one container. But I like the idea of making the containers modular, so you can achieve the sectioning by just getting another container or two, depending on needs.
How long did the container take to build?
Whr will ur TV be for visitors to watch.
Nice to see company’s trying their best to help the housing crunch or the vacation cottage market. Too bad the wood outside was finished with the wrong coating and looking weathered at joints. A “torched” exterior would be my choice with wood. Thnx for posting.
Bingo
my idea is a Π shaped house made of 3 containers and an internal yard in the gap. The south side would be a wooden fence and a small gate
This is exactly my idea too. It has the privacy and sociality in this way.
I wanted to do the same. U-shape, open to the south. Two storey (total of 6 containers). Covering the internal yard with glass/plastic to create an space which was part living room, part greenhouse. The greenhouse would be tall enough to fit full-size fruit trees. Great minds think alike :-)
@@bowehj96 Where did you imagined the windows? Only to the open side facing south or some on the other side? And what about the main entrance?
@@turansevincer2252 That's what I was thinking. You would need to orient the containers in such a way where the middle could get sunlight. I was think thinking making the middle portion have a skylight of full glass and slidable glass doors for ventilation but it's such a great idea
Lovely idea, I love the ideas of a small home but a lot of them are really invasive when it comes to privacy.
Very nice!!! Greetings from Croatia / Zadar
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does the glass breaks when transporting (picking up and putting it down)?specially you dont have crane something?
The cost per sq foot. Only made for a couple . not space for a mother and child. The container doors can house utilities furnace water. Solar hot water etc. The bedroom at opposite end of container. Another set of steel doors at other end of container with steel doors. Would add 4' at each end. A set of bunk beds that are Murphy style would accommodate two to four beds. Convert metal wall cur for slider as a drop down deck and security instead of roll up . use the container metal. You can add awning and wall for screened porch to frame of container. This unit will be moved once. A re cycled Mobil home frame could be used for decking and storage as well. The Amazon warehouse robots could be used for Mobil storage in another 20' container. Could be climate controlled.
If you build a loft bedroom then the child can sleep up there
very portable. I have even seen these on low deck behind the bigger american pickups of today. I grew up hauling these off and to the docks with my dad. Seeing sky high piles of them enough to change the temperature of an area. Not sure why all the extra effort into structure.. we have even struck a bridge with one of these (for being too tall - container placed on wrong trailer). I believe someone here in maine usa is doing a similar business.
hi guys, do you know what those shutters are made of? or the company who made it? or any link?
Doesn’t it get cold because of the thermal conductivity?
Very nice job 👍
Love the sod roof, probably gonna go with a deck on mine tho
Liked the timelapse
Where do they normally do business and what are general price ranges?
love it.. I'd like to see this part. as the second "floor".. or at least raised up on concrete posts. for ground clearance.. and a wood deck off the living room area. for nice weather... (ps.. her accent is fetching.. Italian?)
I would imagine she is Greek, as she mentioned that the local port was Athens and referenced the Greek Islands, when showing other prototypes, towards the end.
Price please and more details about price if there is ability to shipping to other countries full furnished. And if there is ceveral designes and more options and Ideas
Sounds like great idea i pray and hope you get company started and help many people god bless
Price ?
Would be a good question got to love the possibility for grass on top. Could grow a small garden up there.
Too much
easily 50k
@@richtusser that seems a little steep I think it probably would be easier and cheaper building it yourself at least you can cut out and add what you need in it. But still a good idea.
@@darkapothecary4116 you can do it for 30/35k if you do everything yourself
I'm a bit wonder when she said that when the electricity is down, you need to exit from the container door but from what I see here the door was lock from outside? So you can only shut it but cannot lock it so how can you be safe?
I like this place. I'm a bit confused why the title says 'stackable'.
It's really creative and fun. Is it a 40-foot container?
I love it! Very innovative!
the eco friendly roof is amazing i wish it explain well...it should be compose toilet and upstair you can plant beautiful flora and fauna that you can put in the freeland or forest in the future which help the earth or your country more beautiful...thats all folks☺
So many great ideas for homes. I need money.
I lov and I want one 😊
The only problem is the permanent land issue the cost .
Could we download your videos. it would be really helpful to watch them offline.
Nice container home. I like the bathroom counter top finish and material. The lady said it is Cast material Tarim Corinthian. Is that correct? Let me know if someone know the correct word. I couldn't understand well.
De cuantos metros de largo es el contenedor ?
Interesting video once again. In terms of interior layout this house reminds me of the "Portable home delivered as furniture, tailored as smartphone" featured here a few years ago.
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Hi Kirsten,
I am thinking about buying shipping containers to use as car garages and a workshop. I was thinking two small ones side by side as a garage and another in different area for the workshop. My question is how can I make them look less like shipping containers and more like conventional buildings? Is it possible to “shingle” a shipping container? I searched TH-cam and didn’t see any videos on that.
Thanks
Just wood panel it. Or at a set distance weld / fix strong plastic / galvanised trellis and then grow friendly non clingy climbers / ivy's / suitable plantation. this will soften the container look.
Something to enjoy on your long ferry to Canada.
Great to see do much creativity!
Last time I ask in the port of Piraeus how much it cost for a container they say between 4000-5000£ for a container I can buy in UK for 700£.
wow, great design and love the interior. great work and very nice video..new friend here
I like to put it in the direction where there are no flies... tank you. How many sq meater is it??
I wish someone would come up with a modular Ikea style flat pack for shipping containers.
Say in 8'sections that could be assembled outside and slid inside.
Great use of shipping containers. Best I've seen.
is it more economical to buy a shipping container and tear it apart compared to buying the square steel and welding the frame from scratch?
Certainly easier to insulate that way, especially if linking multiple containers. However cheaper is unlikely because the container has had its use (especially an ex-China one that's not getting used anymore)
perfect for me !!