Shipping Container Buildings
Discover The Ulmus Apartments: A Unique Courtyard of Container Dwellings
The Ulmus is a multi-family project made of shipping containers in Tempe, AZ. It is a courtyard of containers that provides for 11 dwelling units and a workout/community room. It is located in Tempe, Arizona. The Architect was Local Studio, Runkle Consulting, Inc did the structural design. The Layout The Architect laid this out in…
Read MoreSimulated Hotel For Urban Warfare in a Dystopian Future
This project was a designed as a simulated hotel for urban warfare at Muscatatuck Training Center. It’s basically it is a building for training for an event no one wants to see – ever. To quote the website for MuTC: “Muscatatuck Training Center (MuTC) offers users a globally unique, urban and rural, multi-domain operating environment…
Read MoreArt2 Park Project Orlando, Florida – One Of The Toughest Projects
This project is an outdoor events space driven by technology to showcase Orlando’s best artists and performers. The project mixes conventional construction with shipping containers. The result is a unique structure that will provide an art museum, concessions, a movie screen, and performance space. Structurally, we used the shipping containers to provide the wind load…
Read MoreA List of Our Shipping Container Projects
We often get asked how many shipping container building projects have we designed. We finally pulled together a list that may miss a couple of projects, but is pretty much all inclusive. They are listed by date, project name, and city. We’ve put links to projects that we have web posts for, we’ll be adding…
Read MoreThe Tallest Container Building in North America
Ida on McKinley is a multi-use development made from shipping containers on 3rd Street and McKinley Street in Phoenix, AZ. The architect is Local Studio, the structural engineer of record is Schneider Structural Engineers. Runkle Consulting, Inc worked under Schneider to design the shipping container part of the structure. The building is 7 stories high,…
Read MoreAffordable Shipping Container Apartment Complex in St. Pete, FL
This project is a 34 unit apartment affordable shipping container complex in St. Petersburg that is being constructed as affordable housing. Each unit is one 40′ container, and includes a bedroom, shower, kitchen, and living room area. The complex includes a laundry room and bike storage room. The Architect on this project was Carbon Design…
Read MoreShipping Container Apartments – New Haven, CT
This shipping container apartment complex was challenging because it was located in a coastal flood zone and a high wind area in New Haven, CT. It sets up above the ground about 10 feet. This added a bit of complexity for stability of the foundations and the walls supporting the building. The developer of this…
Read MorePressurized Waste Plumbing In A Container Building
Most of the time the waste lines in a container building work by gravity. Basically on the principle that water and…well other stuff go downhill. It presents a lot of challenges in shipping containers to keep all the waste pipes at a decent slope. In this earlier video I talk about the challenges. On this…
Read MoreI Really Hate Designing Plumbing in Container Buildings
In this video, I go over the issues with putting plumbing systems in a shipping container building. Of all the things I do in design, this is a task I absolutely hate. Doing a gravity sewage system can be especially tough becasue it’s difficut to route the pipe in a way that makes sense and…
Read MoreVacation Home in West Virginia Made From Repurposed Intermodal Containers
This is one of our latest designs. It’s an existing cabin that the owner is putting an addtion around it made from shipping containers. In this design, I’m not touching the existing structure for the most part. The only modification I am doing to the existing structure is adding a beam in the basement. The…
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