Ahurewa Eco Retreat - 700 sq ft Off-Grid Shipping Container Home, New Zealand

Best of all, this beautiful 700 sq ft shipping container home is completely off the grid, with solar power, rainwater collection and even a vermicomposting toilet, meaning the owner will never need to see another power or water bill again.

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Project	Ahurewa Eco Retreat
Owner	Rosie Gee
Area	700 sq ft (65 sq m)
Containers	Five 20 ft
Bedroom	1
Year	2020
Location	Coromandel, New Zealand

You will surely love this incredible home constructed out of five 20ft shipping containers. Its owner Rosie opted for a shipping container home after realizing its durability and industrial style look. The shipping containers are painted black from the outside to blend with the natural surroundings. On the contrary, the interior space is more colorful than the exterior. There are plywood paneled walls and orange accents all around the house.

The living spaces are creatively designed with large glass walls to allow in natural light and offer an outdoor view. As the owner is a reading enthusiast, there is a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf inside and even some storage for books under the bed. There is also a cozy deck to enjoy the outdoors. This house is no short of features and facilities to make the owners feel at home.

Rosie's home is situated in the middle of a spectacular conservation block and her beautiful modern shipping container home has been wonderfully designed to take full advantage of the beautiful surrounding landscape.

Best of all, this shipping container home is completely off the grid, with solar power, rainwater collection and even a vermicomposting toilet, meaning she will never need to see another power or water bill again.

100 sq ft House - Off-Grid Shipping Container, Auckland, New Zealand

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About Brenda Kelly

Design: Brenda Kelly
Area: 100 square feet (10 square meters)
Location: Auckland, New Zealand




Brenda Kelly made her old dream come true, she was dreaming about tiny house since she was at age of 13. And she got it; Brenda lives in a 100 sq ft house - small and cozy off-grid shipping container home.

For following the regulations of local zoning in Auckland (New Zealand) concerning area, there is a covered outdoor porch space, which keeps the structure at 100 square feet (10 square meters).

Layout decision and design of the interior will amaze you from the first sight. There are kitchen, a bedroom with a wardrobe, spacious bathroom and even home office space though the limited square feet.

The concrete blocks were used for foundation of the 100 sq ft house. Also the container house is equipped with two solar panels and there is a rainwater collection system.

Shipping Container Micro-House with Folding Wall, New Zealand

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About Atelierworkshop

Project: Port-A-Bach
Design: Atelierworkshop
Year: 2001 - 2006
Photography: Paul McCredie

Atelierworkshop believes shipping containers can be an effective answer for various scale architectural projects and if site access, portability, security, robustness are issues. This shipping container micro-house with folding wall was built in Hangzhou, China and transported to New Zealand. The prototype was a part of the exhibition of Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth (1/2013).




Description by project team.

The Port-A-Bach project by the architects of the Atelier Workshop is a shipping container micro-house built on the basis of a single transport container that has been set up on wheels for easy transport. The prototype was built in Hangzhou, China but has already been moved to New Zealand, where it is a permanent part of the collection of the Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth.

The shipping container micro-house can accommodate two adults and two children, and each inch was carefully designed to provide maximum comfort in the smallest space. Its interior is mostly made of wood - including a bathroom with an open shower, a sink and a composting toilet.

The kitchen has lots of storage furniture (some hidden, some exposed) and natural light filters in between your windows. The shipping container micro-house can be equipped with solar panels and rooftop wind turbines, allowing it to operate completely off-grid.

The flexible structure of the Port-A-Bach is able to unfold to expand connections to the outside and then to be closed again for relocation.

Features:

• fully enclosed exterior steel shell (when folded up)
• appointed with large internal storage cupboards and shelves / stainless steel kitchen and fittings / bathroom with open shower, sink, composting toilet,
• interior fabric screen system gives the versatility of creating rooms within the large open living space : includes bunk beds, double bed room, dressing room, kitchen and bathroom
• exterior canvas screen system allows to shelter the deck area for comfortable indoor/outdoor flow and living
• 6 concrete footings form a stable, non-invasive 'foundation', allowing you to situate the unit on a wide range of ground conditions

A holiday home:

• portable
• secure
• high-level finish
• designed to be environmentally clean
• comparatively inexpensive
• comfortably sleeps two adults and two children

That allows:

• transportation
• immediate, flexible and long-term solution that enables you to use your land without investing in a permanent property commitment
• for future development, ideal for leased land situations
• to be power, water and sewer independent, it is well suited to remote or non-service supplied land
• also be connected to available services
• quick and easy transportation (via truck or helicopter) and installation to any orientation with minimal impact on site
• unfolding to create a living space and refolding to create a secure unit for in situ storage or relocation

Small shipping container home, Auckland, New Zealand

This small shipping container home can be used as a spare room, studio, home office, sleepout or anything you want. The transportable 20 foot container unit can include various home devices for any taste and budget and so generates portable rooms with various functionality and can be delivered anywhere in the world.

Design: One Cool Habitat

Shipping Container House Built into Hill, Wellington, New Zealand

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Design	Ross Stevens
Containers	3
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	2
Location	Wellington, New Zealand
Photographs	Petra Alsbach-Stevens

This prefab modular shipping container home built into hill, is an excellent example of industrial design in residential housing. Re-use of sea containers make the price of this 3 container 4 story home very attractive. The shipping containers are quite durable, allow designers to widely combine the arrangement of premises and provide great opportunities for architects of modular houses.

All three levels are homely, cozy and offer the modern comforts of a contemporary house with many more quirky features conventional houses don't have. Two large outdoor decks face towards a beautiful leafy Greywacke rock face as well as your own private waterfall - a great place to entertain friends and have dinners and drinks.

Superb indoor/outdoor flow into a kitchen ensures a relaxed living space with dining table. The top floor media/cinema room is great for kids to enjoy a movie or play video games. The pool room offers great billiard table and sofa seating.

Three unique bedrooms can sleep up to 6 people with extra bedding available for 2 more guests. There are 2 bathrooms, 8 seater spa pool with jet bubbles and outdoor shower for the brave.