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2. 25 Incredible Shipping Container Homes From Around the World

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   Set in Oklahoma City, this apartment complex by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris comprises four two-bedroom units built from 16 shipping containers. There’s even a tornado bunker on the property ...

3. Shipping container architecture - Wikipedia

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   In 2006, the Dutch company Tempohousing finished, in Amsterdam, the biggest container village in the world: 1,000 student homes from modified shipping containers from China. [5] In 2002, standard ISO shipping containers began to be modified for use as stand-alone on-site wastewater treatment plants. This use of containers creates a cost ...

4. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   Panelized homes (also referred to as system built homes), construct the structural components, or "panels", of a home (walls, roof and floor systems) in an off site factory where the panels are cut via automated saws and laser cutters from large wooden sheets, allowing for lower amount of waste compared to site-built construction. [9]

5. This Boise company made a name for itself by building ... - AOL

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   A Boise startup that built homes from shipping containers rose to national acclaim five years ago. ... The price of one of IndieDwell’s two-bedroom, one-bath, 640-square-foot homes was $65,000 ...

6. Wada (house) - Wikipedia

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   The term, in all probability, is derived from the Sanskrit word Vata, meaning a plot or a piece of land meant for a house. Over time it came to denote the house built on that plot. Wadi, an extended meaning of wada, denotes a cluster of huts. [1] Typically, wada refers to a house with courtyards found in Maharashtra and surrounding regions in ...

7. Containerized housing unit - Wikipedia

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   Modular shipping containers are typically referred to as isotainers. In some military applications, the slang terms "Combat Housing Unit" or "cans" has also gained acceptance. First developed by Malcom McLean to transport cargo, freight containers withstand much abuse. Freight container housing is becoming more and more popular.

8. Four-room house - Wikipedia

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   A four-room house, also known as an "Israelite house" or a "pillared house" is the name given to the mud and stone houses characteristic of the Iron Age of Levant. The four-room house is so named because its floor plan is divided into four sections, although not all four are proper rooms, one often being an unroofed courtyard .

9. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Siheyuan, Sanheyuan: a type of courtyard house found in China; Slope house: a house with soil or rock completely covering the bottom floor on one side and partly two of the walls on the bottom floor. The house has two entries depending on the ground level. Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the ...