For the most up to date and comprehensive coverage available today on the methods and techniques used when modifying recycled shipping containers into homes and other structures
The CONSTRUCTURE GUIDE fully explains every aspect of the process, giving you a foundation based on the realistic necessities required to meet building codes and even acquire building permits.
Container Home Engineering
Learn all the concepts behind designing and engineering for loads and load paths as they relate to both the International Residential Code and the unique engineering of the shipping container. Visit the Engineering Page for more info.
Container House Design
With a complete understanding of the underlying engineering concepts the designer will now be able to utilizes, rather than destroy, the inherent strength of the shipping container in their designs. Learn more on the Design Page.
Container Home Construction
The Construction Section clearly shows you the many special fabrications necessary and the required departures from traditional construction when referring to electrical wiring, plumbing, etc. The Construction page pulls it all together.
Design Studies and Floor Plans
After reading the Constructure Guide you will be able to make an analysis of the strengths and weakness’s of any container home design. The designs you develop using the included CAD software will be based on sound structural and aesthetic design principals as well as construction code guidelines. You will never look at a container home sketch the same way again.
The ability to achieve, the satisfaction of accomplishment, and the anticipated time and material savings, are only possible with a complete understanding of the task, adequate preparations, and the foreknowledge to anticipate problems.
About Constructure
Early designers and builders of residential ISBU projects used little more than paint to disguise the origins of their corrugated steel boxes while chanting a "form follows function" mantra and extolling the "beauty" of cost savings and industrial design.
Constructure believes that the cost and construction practicality of the simple cargo container must eventually be wed to a new and unique persona based on an appearance and practicality that transcends the traditional home if container home construction is ever to gain any traction in the mass market.
We set out to acheive this by utilizing up to date commercial building materials and methods to create a minimalist exterior and interior with the sleek look of the classic case study homes of the mid 20th century.