Shipping Container Roof Garden

On each side of the container roof attach a wooden beam into the steel plates.

Shipping container roof garden.

This style of roof will still allow the container to be transportable. Now we ve launched our latest conversion project to the public the garden office. It s no secret that space is a luxury in your home and it s not always possible to transform a spare room into an office environment that is fit for purpose. Shipping crate house with rooftop garden built from a used shipping crate as a guest house in san antonio this residence has sustainability in mind with every aspect of its design.

Now the roof s basic structure is starting to take shape. This blog post covers some of the many benefits of transforming a container into a shed as well as offering up some particularly good examples of what is really possible. This way not only does it provide shade but there is air flow to provide cooling during the hot texas summer months. Having spots of bare soil can be quite an eyesore.

Here an idea for roofing a shipping container for water collection and heat abatement. This shipping container makes a fantastic guest house with a roof garden to boot. Screw the trusses into this beam. Sheds fashioned from new or used shipping containers are a cost effective and simple way to add additional indoor space to your backyard.

The ultimate goal here is to have the entire roof covered in so much green that the brownish shade of soil becomes practically invisible. Envisioned by poteet architects the house sits on a platform made from old telephone poles its used water is funneled to gardens on its roof and it includes other nods to the environment like a composting toilet. Universal containers designs and builds bespoke shipping container conversions all unique to individual specifications. Introducing the universal containers garden room.

In any case you can either buy a. Installing a successful green roof means that you ll have to minimize that as much as possible. And it s a super sustainable design. From poteet architects it sits in the sun in south san antonio texas.

Stacking shipping containers up to create more living space is a good alternative to placing them side by side and cutting structurally compromising holes in them. To install a shed style roof on your shipping container weld right angled steel plates across the length of the shipping container on both sides. 2 seal with bitumen and cover with heavy duty dpm. 3 construct wooden frame around edge of the roof ours is 225mm high made from decking timber on the outside and bitumen coated battening timber on the inside.

2 simple shipping container home.