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15 Well Designed Shipping Container Homes for Life Inside the Box

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Shipping Container Home Plans The standard container sizes measure 8’ wide and 8’6” high and come in two lengths of 20’ or 40’. Plenty of windows and sliders are incorporated to expand the space to the outdoors. Each apartment has its own outdoor living area with integrated cargo containers as part of the floor plan.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Cheers, gt Patrick Anderson Having built a 16×12 outdoor studio with them in Long Beach (and having had one of the roof panels slip and land on my leg) I can attest to the weight of them. They mechanically fastened together with cam locks and attached to the sill in a standard fashion. lancotf So very true. Thermocore?

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