London, June 14, 2011 – Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape. They made the very bold choice of exploring with me the possibility of creating a very inexpensive house made out of disregarded shipping containers that allowed them to be dept free and live the life they always dreamed of.
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Group 41 Inc. (www.group41inc.com), a San Francisco-based design firm, has long been experimenting with shipping container design. Besides recently winning a Lifecycle award and submitting a shipping container design to the Google 10 to 100, the company is currently working on a large multi-family development in Utah that is to be entirely constructed out of shipping containers. Below is additional info on the project and a link to Group 41’s container design site: http://www.containernation.com/

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Designed by LOT-EK, the Puma City is constructed with 24 refurbished shipping containers and is fully dis-mountable. This flexible and movable store stand at 3 level and covering 11,000-square-foot, and it was completed three months ago.

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As container homes getting more popular days after days, the designs are also getting more creative and challenging. Take a look at this, located in New Zealand, this container house was built up to and into the hill.

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