Stacking shipping containers up to create more living space is a good alternative to placing them side by side and cutting structurally compromising holes in them.
Shipping container roof garden.
This style of roof will still allow the container to be transportable.
To install a shed style roof on your shipping container weld right angled steel plates across the length of the shipping container on both sides.
The rooftop garden is raised slightly off the top of the container.
In any case you can either buy a.
Sheds fashioned from new or used shipping containers are a cost effective and simple way to add additional indoor space to your backyard.
1 clean and de rust the roof.
Now the roof s basic structure is starting to take shape.
From poteet architects it sits in the sun in south san antonio texas.
Here an idea for roofing a shipping container for water collection and heat abatement.
On each side of the container roof attach a wooden beam into the steel plates.
This way not only does it provide shade but there is air flow to provide cooling during the hot texas summer months.
Introducing the universal containers garden room.
This shipping container makes a fantastic guest house with a roof garden to boot.
Now we ve launched our latest conversion project to the public the garden office.
2 simple shipping container home.
3 construct wooden frame around edge of the roof ours is 225mm high made from decking timber on the outside and bitumen coated battening timber on the inside.
Envisioned by poteet architects the house sits on a platform made from old telephone poles its used water is funneled to gardens on its roof and it includes other nods to the environment like a composting toilet.
And it s a super sustainable design.
Screw the trusses into this beam.
This green roof was created on a shipping container in mytholmroyd june 2019.
Universal containers designs and builds bespoke shipping container conversions all unique to individual specifications.
2 seal with bitumen and cover with heavy duty dpm.
Installing a successful green roof means that you ll have to minimize that as much as possible.
Having spots of bare soil can be quite an eyesore.
It s no secret that space is a luxury in your home and it s not always possible to transform a spare room into an office environment that is fit for purpose.