9 Unique Grain Silo Homes That Will Leave You in Awe

Silo Homes

Grain silo homes have become a popular structure used in building homes during the past few years. And it’s no wonder why more and more people are now dreaming to have their very own grain silo home! Grain silo homes are very strong structures which makes them a great shell for building houses. In fact, most of the silos featured here date […]

From grain silo to a comfortable home…

From grain silo to a comfortable home…

Phoenix, Arizona – Christoph Kaiser LLC Year Built:      2014 Total Livable Space:     340 sq. ft. Photography:     Mark Lipczynski While driving through Kansas, architect Christoph Kaiser noticed a dismantled, 1955 era grain silo. A short conversation with the farmer owner and the bits and pieces has a new owner, and soon, a […]

Coromandel Container

Coromandel Container

Coromandel Peninsula NZ  –  Crosson Clark Carnachan Architects Year built:     2002 Photography:     Patrick Reynolds When is a container not a container? When it uses the concept of the simplicity and security that a container offers, but is custom built. CCCA definitely rank ‘way up there’ in the list of the world’s […]

HABODE

HABODE

Anywhere you choose –  Rod Gibson/Habode Built Area:     80 m2 + decks  (864 sq.ft. + decks) The New Zealand built HABODE can be shipped anywhere in the world, trucked to site, ‘unfolded’ and be habitable in just two days.  It is designed and built to withstand extreme weather conditions and meets and exceeds […]

Up-cycled Warehouse

Richmond, Australia – Zen Architects Project Year :     2013 Developed Area :     240.0 m2 Photographs :     Emma Cross From what used to be a leaky warehouse back in the 60s, this up-cycled structure is now a bright, airy, and energy-efficient home for a beautiful family. The open space provides generous lighting, giving […]

Casa El Tiamblo

Casa El Tiamblo

El tremble Ávila, Spain  –  James & Mau Arquitectura Built area: 129 m2  (1,390 sq. ft) Builder: Infinski Spain Year built: 2010 Photography: Pablo Sarabia Tens of thousands of containers arrive from China and other manufacturing nations every year.  Only 20% go back!  Without commenting on the balance of trade issues, that leaves an awful lot of containers […]

8 Shipping Container House in Lille

Lille, France – Patrick Partouche Area: 240m2 If you are a fan of container homes then you are going to like this house, which exhibits industrial beauty both inside and out!   This conversion project involves eight prefabricated shipping containers transported by truck and arranged with a crane. Each end of the shipping container was fitted with […]

Joseph Dupuis’s self-sufficient shipping container cabin built for just $20,000

Joseph Dupuis Shipping Container Cabin

Ottawa, Canada – Joseph Dupuis Floor Area: 355 sq. ft. Photography: Japhet Alvarez It may look like it’s simply a storage unit from the outside, but these three shipping containers enclose an impressive interior that might just suit your taste! Due to his desire to escape the city for a more peaceful and simpler environment, 29-year old engineer and renewable energy researcher Joseph […]

Pallet House

Mallarauco, Melipilla, Chile  –  Cristián Irarrázaval Andrews Site area:  Large acreage Built area:  120m2  (1,296sf) Year Built:   2007 The project called for farm accommodation that would be used only a few days each week. Budget was a major consideration as was the remoteness of the location which would typically add to costs. An existing, […]

727 Fuselage Home

727 Fuselage Home

Believe it or not, this 1965 Boeing 727 airframe has been re-purposed as an exclusive hotel suite in Costa Rica. The plane was salvaged piece by piece, from its San Jose airport resting place, transported in five pieces to Manuel Antonio and reconstructed on a 50 foot concrete pedestal. Tell us what you think – […]