Container Home in Bangalore

Shipping containers have always intrigued us with their strength and versatility. Taking a step further in using shipping containers in our daily lives, how about living in one with the family?



Container Homes are a new approach towards modular, eco-friendly and cost effective housing. Useful spaces are created by arranging and joining containers in various positions. Arranging containers is similar to arranging lego bricks, except that the bricks are atleast 20ft long, 8ft wide and 8ft high.



 It is hard to believe as how containers like above can be converted into a container home like below.

 

Container homes are a popular concept in Western countries, but in India, it has never been done before. In our case, we have used 2 old shipping containers to create a house equipped with a Living room, Bedroom, Kitchen, Bathroom and Balcony.
The entire complex consists of four containers, two making up the container home and other two being used as office space and bachelor pad.
In our previous Endeavour, we created a comfortable and cozy living unit for a single person using a single container.



The two containers act as two modular units of the house. One container is converted into a bedroom cum bathroom.

 

And the other container serves as the kitchen area and dining area.

 

Windows and Doors have been cut on the container sides to provide easy access. The container are placed in an L-shape, with other L becoming a 12ft by 12ft living room. The house boasts of a very unique wall made out of glass beer bottles, with a bullock cart wheel at its center.(as can be seen below)

 

The doors of the containers have been opened out to get extra 4ft of floor space as can be seen in the above photograph. More on the Container Home in later posts….

The possibilities with containers are endless, they open a completely new way of creating strong and cost-effective structures for regular use. Shipping containers are ideal building blocks for making comfortable and eco-friendly houses. Container Homes are not only economical to make but take considerably less time to build when compared to traditional houses.

Welcome to the world of Container Homes.



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Container Home in Bangalore India

Shipping containers are known for their robustness and superior design and build. It would be a mistake to not to use them for making portable/permanent homes. In the west, this has been in use for decades. India is fast catching up to this unique concept.

This is a comfortable and cozy living unit for one person.



The possibilities are enormous for customization, right from the entrance door to the shape and size of windows. In this unit, we have preferred to have plenty of ventilation owing to one big 6ft X 4ft window and two small windows(6ft X 1ft vertical window and 2ft diameter circular window). The door is the in-built container door. A sliding glass-cum-mosquito mesh door is provided as an additional door. All the windows have glass-cum-mosquito mesh panels.


A rather unique window

Container home is equipped with electrical wiring and water connection. A false ceiling is also provided for the lighting arrangements.


Side view

The interior includes an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a TV, a Bunk Bed, a Wardrobe, a Kitchen table(which doubles up as a storage unit), a Sink and couple of shelves. With all these furnishings, there is still plenty of room in the container for moving around and space for a small study table.

Home without a balcony is incomplete, well this container home, comes with one of its kind. Balcony adds enormous space to the container home. It is a perfect sit-out for evening tea and nothing beats the pleasure of lying idly in the hammock strung between the poles of the balcony. Apart from adding extra space, balcony acts as an insulator as well by not letting the sun hit the metal sheets directly, which considerably lowers the inside temperature during the summer time.


Staircase

Due to structural soundness of container, the Container Home is Earthquake and Hurricane proof. Well, in Bangalore, there is no danger from either of them, but not every place is as lucky as Bengaluru.

To top it all, the whole setup is mobile. If one gets fed up of his surroundings, one can just shift the whole unit to place of his place of choice (off-course land doesn't come with container... :P)

For details, contact containersolutionsindia (at) gmail (dot) com

Categories: Bangalore, Container, Home, in, India

Containers for Gallery and Shooting Arena at Bangalore

Containers for Gallery and Shooting Arena

In our ongoing effort to create useful and effective structures using shipping containers, a Viewing Gallery and Shooting Arena has been created at PLAY X GAMES ARENA Bangalore.

Viewing Gallery and Shooting Arena are part of a bigger adventure sports complex. Shipping containers have been used to create a two floor structure, with the bottom area being the Shooing Arena while the top is the Viewing Gallery.

Two 40ft containers are used to create the base of the structure. The roof is made using the corrugated metal sheets and concrete.

The bottom containers provide an excellent area for rifle shooting with no further need to create a specialized arena for shooting. A 40ft long container gives the ample distance as well as the required safety.

Space in between the two containers can be used for all kinds of activities other than shooting as well.

The side walls double up as a reusable canvas.

A safe and secure shooting area.

The whole structure is made using shipping containers, metal beams and metal sheets. The cost of making such a structure using containers is less than half of the cost, to make it using brick and concrete (which would be the obvious way!!!).

Shipping containers provide a viable and cost-effective way to create structures which are easy & fast to build and it provides a way to salvage the raw materials (containers, beams, etc) in case of redesign.

Categories: and, Arena, at, Bangalore, containers, for, Gallery, Shooting

Containers for Climbing Wall at Bangalore

This is a 50ft high climbing wall at PLAY X GAMES ARENA Bangalore.



From the front it looks like a normal climbing wall, but have a look at the support structure. It uses a very unique structural element for support structure, i.e. shipping containers.



The T shape support structure comprises of two containers, one 40ft long and another one 20ft long. The 40ft one is placed vertically with 20ft one, on top of it.



A ladder runs right up to the top of the structure, providing an easy access to the top of the structure.



The bottom part of the container is used as a store room, which is equipped with a state of the art door as well.



Container Solutions India strives to create strong and cost-effective structures for regular use, by using shipping containers in unique and innovative ways.

Categories: at, Bangalore, Climbing, containers, for, Wall

Container Solutions India Bangalore Single Container Home

Container Solutions India - Bangalore - Container Home

 The possibilities are enormous for customization, right from the entrance door to the shape and size of windows. In this unit, we have preferred to have plenty of ventilation owing to one big 6ft X 4ft window and two small windows(6ft X 1ft vertical window and 2ft diameter circular window). The door is the in-built container door. A sliding glass-cum-mosquito mesh door is provided as an additional door. All the windows have glass-cum-mosquito mesh panels The interior includes an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a TV, a Bunk Bed, a Wardrobe, a Kitchen table(which doubles up as a storage unit), a Sink and couple of shelves. With all these furnishings, there is still plenty of room in the container for moving around and space for a small study table. Home without a balcony is incomplete, well this container home, comes with one of its kind. Balcony adds enormous space to the container home. It is a perfect sit-out for evening tea and nothing beats the pleasure of lying idly in the hammock strung between the poles of the balcony. Apart from adding extra space, balcony acts as an insulator as well by not letting the sun hit the metal sheets directly, which considerably lowers the inside temperature during the summer time

 http://containersolutionsindia.blogspot.com.au/

Categories: Bangalore, Container, Home, India, Single, Solutions

Office cum Home Container Bangalore

Brand new Office Container refurbished from an old 20ft long shipping container.

Categories: Bangalore, Container, cum, Home, office

Container Solutions India Bangalore Container Home

Container Solutions India - Bangalore - Container Home

we have used 2 old shipping containers to create a house equipped with a Living room, Bedroom, Kitchen, Bathroom and Balcony.
The entire complex consists of four containers, two making up the container home and other two being used as office space and bachelor pad

http://containersolutionsindia.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/container-home-in-bangalore.html

Categories: Bangalore, Container, Home, India, Solutions