Beautiful Two Shipping Container Home in Montana

2x40 ft off-grid container home

About Ty Kelly

Location

Architect	Ty Kelly
Location	Montana
Containers	2x40ft
Bedrooms	1
Bathrooms	1
Price (2017)	$125,000
Year	2013
Area	720 sqft

Wanting to disconnect from the stresses of a hyper connected life in Seattle, architect and builder Ty Kelly built a beautiful two shipping container home that allowed him to live off grid in style in Montana. The modern structure, which was sold in 2017 for $125,000, is made out of two shipping containers, renovated into a lovely 720 square foot container home built with reclaimed materials as well as some seriously cool handmade finishings done by the architect himself.

Unique modern two shipping container home has one bedroom and one bathroom, featuring clean, contemporary style with floor to ceiling glass.

Features include wood burning stove, IKEA kitchen and bathroom cabinets, hand made butcher block counters, mosaic tile walk-in shower, cedar plank siding, Corbond spray-foam insulation, electric in-wall heaters, contemporary fixtures/appliances/faucets, reclaimed wood throughout and recessed overhead lighting.





The container house feels much larger than it actually is, in part because of it's open layout, as well as the all-glass wall which brings the outdoors in.  Another admiral quality is the use of reclaimed and recycled material. Not only the containers themselves, but many of the interior finishes were salvaged from other places, such as the butcher block countertops, redwood flooring and wood wall panels.

Location

Address 128 W Grannis Rd, Livingston, MT 59047, USA

About Ty Kelly

Ty's professional background and field of study is Architecture, having co-partnered a Seattle based design and model building company since 2000. Following his degree at Montana State University, he attended Graduate School at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles CA.

"The challenge for me, is merging my interests in both art and architecture. Obviously, these two fields inherently share many areas of study throughout their process… color, composition, texture, shape, transparency, spacial relationships, points/lines/planes, and so on. While the built environment is strongly driven by geometric principals and a high level of precision, I think art allows us to take a step back and think more conceptually. This step back offers many different paths to making.

My work oscillates between the figurative and abstract. Model building, which is often dictated by detail-focused craft, has definitely been an influence. Subject matter aside, I put strong emphasis on how things are constructed, which often falls into the areas of relief, collage and sculpture.

I also happen to be a graphics junkie. Admittedly, I like manipulating recognizable imagery, from advertising media to film icons and fueling this interest with nostalgia, humor and pop-culture references."

Email	info@larangostudio.com
Website	https://www.larangostudio.com
Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/Larango-Studio-197508440455858/
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Links

Curbed https://www.curbed.com/2017/12/7/16743176/shipping-container-house-for-sale-montana
Zillow https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/2092109502_zpid/45.79799,-110.437746,45.718346,-110.591555_rect/12_zm/1_fr/
Inhabitat https://inhabitat.com/stunning-shipping-container-home-can-be-yours-for-125k/
Apartment Therapy https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/tiny-house-double-shipping-container-home-montana-257365
Dwell https://www.dwell.com/article/this-awesome-shipping-container-home-can-be-yours-for-dollar125k-3a7898e3

Beautiful Two Shipping Container Home in Montana

Shipping Containers in Tropical Island House, Lombok, Indonesia

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About architect

Project	Clay House, Seven Havens Residence
Architect	Budi Pradono
Location	Selong Belanak, Lombok, Indonesia
Containers	2
Year	2016

Shipping containers in this tropical island house in Lombok (Indonesia) appears to be slipping away from the rooftop of the residence. Clay House is built on a green hill in a beachside area Selong Belanak, in the southern West Nusa Tenggara province of an Indonesian Lombok island east of Bali.

The tropical island house is made up of two volumes set on concrete pillars to rise above surrounding tropical landscape and face towards the beautiful Indian Ocean. Seven Havens Residence is the name was given to the house by the owner.

The surroundings are currently undeveloped and architects say the shipping containers island house will be become a landmark in this place.

"In the presence of this location on the hill of course we have to be careful because this building will automatically become an icon of the surrounding environment," said the Budi Pradono architects.





Two shipping containers are placed at the highest point of the building, and are angled upward at 60 degrees to create a large space in the master bedroom. High ceiling allows a big window with glass doors that open to a wide terrace. The exterior of the tropical island house is painted white to reflect the sunlight and avoid overheating of the building constructions.

The shipping containers were sourced from a sea port of a nearby island; the containers still bear a "7h" orange logo. Building materials are cheap and local sourced. The clay for the walls was collected in the Lombok island, 20 kilometres from the building site and treated with a mixture of cement, sand, cow dung, and straw. To prevent overheating in the humid and hot climate the walls were built 30 centimetres thick.

Internal cladding was made using flattened bamboo. To make most of bamboo starch stay in the plant roots, the bamboo was harvested at night when no photosynthesis process was taking place. Bamboo then underwent a preservation process, which included submersion in a salt sea water for 60 days and after this a coating of paint. Other exposed natural materials were used throughout the tropical island house to complement the interior, like stone tiling and heavy wooden furniture.

A staircase leads to the entrance between two walls draped with greenery at the front of the residence.

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About architect

Projects developed through analysis of practical as well as theoretical issues ranging from typology, material, structure, and use, to larger networks of social, environmental and cultural consideration. budipradono architects experiments with local material such as bamboo, ramp earth, stone etc. for real project or exhibitions and participated in several urban and architecture competitions in many different countries.

The scope of budipradono architects research constantly shifts and expands as each individual project has its own character and specificity and conditions. This strategy allows budipradono architects to participate in design at different scale-from product design, private residence, to cultural institutions, from installation work to large-scale urban infrastructure.

The atmosphere within our office is multi-cultural, non-hierarchical, team based and collaborative, with attention to personal well being.

Address	Budipradono Architects, JL.Walet 6 blok I.2 no 11, Sector 2, Bintaro jaya, Jakarta Selatan 12330, Indonesia
Phone	+62 21 7370367
Fax	+62 21 73690875
Email	info@budipradono.com
Website	http://www.budipradono.com

Shipping Containers in Tropical Island House, Lombok, Indonesia