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Cargotecture – Shipping Container Conversion

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Cargotecture – Shipping Container Conversion

Ever wondered what happens to the many shipping containers that are piled up at port terminals around the globe? It is estimated that two million empty shipping containers are sitting idle at any given time. Given that, Cargotecture, or the adaptive reuse of these giant steel shells, sounds like a remarkably obvious idea: it is sustainable, it creates original and surprising architecture, and there are time-saving, manageability and module organisation advantages to it as well. That makes the solution we offer at Sunplug-NG, using retired shipping containers as a building material, both eco-friendly and economical.

Purposes and structures include:

  • Container homes – standardised sizes for simplified design, transport and planning.
  • Container offices and retail shops – uniquely designed spaces that are modern and affordable.
  • Container hotels and hostels – modern container hotels and hostels are popping up around the world.
  • Container gardens – a great way to set up a personal greenhouse project that protects plants from inclement weather.
  • Pools – ideal and affordable for in-ground and above-ground pools.
  • Food trucks – putting a shipping container on a truck is a great way of having a functional kitchen on wheels.
  • Emergency shelters, farmhouses and site accommodation – ideal shelters for disaster relief.

Contact us today at Sunplug-NG for an up-cycling of your prefab projects using shipping containers.

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