{"id":124,"date":"2022-02-18T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2024-12-23T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:37:29","slug":"lets-build-with-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/en\/lets-build-with-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s build with containers !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I come to the conclusion to build with containers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Container buildings has become fashionable in the last years. While I don&#8217;t consider them very sustainable, they offer some advantages, which came in handy for my situation.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2014 I used to stay around 6-8 months per year in Paraguay. I had shipped part of my belongings with a 20 ft Container in 2013 and started to take some of the furnitures, appliances and personal belongings out of the container into a house. Unfortunately this wasn&#8217;t the best move. Not being present all year round in a traditional building puts your stuff at risk of being<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>water damaged<\/li>\n<li>eaten by termites<\/li>\n<li>eaten by rats<\/li>\n<li>covered by rat shit<\/li>\n<li>etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made all of the experiences above while anything left in the container remained as clean and undamaged as the day I had put them into the container. Shipping containers are basically hermetically sealed with the exception of 2 small air openings (which you can cover if you want to) .<\/p>\n<p>In 2014\/2015 while making these observations I was faced with some structural damages in one of my houses in the village. A closer look at the building didn&#8217;t convinced me that it was worth to repair them. I originally had started to construct some columns to extend this house but now it didn&#8217;t seem to make sense.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01288-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One day I realised that this <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">was also an opportunity to build <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">something from scratch as I wanted instead of fixing thins and making to many compromises with the existing structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to take the existing structure down (recycling all the materials) and build something new <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">using shipping containers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137 aligncenter\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-weight: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-1536x920.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMAG0677-2048x1226.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent some time playing around with some container models and sketchup to come up with a basic layout concept.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapukai-catastro-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapukai-catastro-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapukai-catastro-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapukai-catastro-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sapukai-catastro.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I come to the conclusion to build with containers&#8230; Container buildings has become fashionable in the last years. While I don&#8217;t consider them very sustainable, they offer some advantages, which came in handy for my situation. Around 2014 I used to stay around 6-8 months per year in Paraguay. 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