Eco Factor: Home made from recycled shipping container generates solar electricity and saves energy.
Shipping container homes are unique, they’re strong, easy to manufacture and easy to transport. If constructed intelligently they also can offer the inhabitants a luxuriously sustainable place to live in. Designers over at Verde es Bueno have designed a prefab home prototype that comes with the bones of a shipping container and promises to generate and save energy.
Built for the interior design exhibition Casa FOA, the house features four spaces inside and a roof terrace. The living rooms and kitchen offer basic amenities, but the bedroom features a hidden office below a retractable bed and a wardrobe inside one of the separating walls.
The house carries an adequate level of insulation that regulates interior temperature, thereby reducing the amount of energy the house consumes. The surfaces are covered with bonded leather and wood from sustainably managed forests is used.
The terrace has a piece of green roof and some part of it is used by solar panels that generate some part of the energy that the house consumes.
Via: Treehugger
