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How this Modern House is Actually Made from Two Shipping Containers

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The Casa Contêiner Cosentino (Container House) is a project of impossibilities turned into reality.

The house isn’t huge in floor size – it measures 60-square-meter at maximum – but to the eyes, it appears spacious and bright.

How this Modern House is Actually Made from Two Shipping Containers

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And this has all been constructed by simply joining two old industrial shipping containers.

Although one would never think to use containers as the main structure for a building – much more a residence; that’s exactly the kind of paradox that Brazilian architecture firm Marilia Pellegrini set out to prove possible.

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The company’s goal for the Container House was to show that the supposedly formal and frigid environment of an industrial shipping container could actually be transformed into a liveable modern space through the strategic use of elegant yet cost-effective materials.

The architects of the house were inspired by the neo-modern concept of minimalism and the so-called “aesthetic of emptiness” – a term coined by Kenya Hara, creative director of MUJI, to convey the idea of simple and clean living.

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Instead of using costly Carrara marble, Dekton Opera – a marble-like material made from a proprietary blend of natural quartz stone, porcelain, and glass – was used for most of the house’s main surfaces such as the kitchen benchtops and splashbacks, as well as the bathroom walls.

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The end result is a gorgeous, cosy yet roomy living area, kitchen, and laundry area in one container, and a sensibly sparse but inviting bedroom with a pristine en-suite bathroom in the other.

Undoubtedly, the house falls on the small side for a family, but it’s been built and finished in such a way that it could serve as an outhouse on an existing property.

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