Comments on: Cliffside Shipping Container Home in New Zealand

By: Te Rei

Te Rei — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:23:52 +0000

Kia ora,

I love the idea but yes I think it could do with a bit of a something on the outside it does look a bit boring.

I want to do this. Can you help me with some advice? Is it better to get the windows and doors already cutout by for instance Addis Shipping Containers or do it myself. What has been the total cost once you’re able to move in, ie land, container, materials etc?

Anna

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:22:37 +0000

the interior is amazing, i love how they kept the industrial modern feel of the containers instead or trying to make it look like a “normal” house. unfortunately the outside is totally bland. i don\’t mind the look of shipping containers, but where are the windows?

By: jct

jct — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:10:57 +0000

diego-
it’s too bad you are talking about something you don’t know. this house actually is sited right next to a busy road, and is not on a cliff. and on the other side of that hill behind the house? The regional landfill. Next to it?
Across the road? a bland suburban development. This place and the quirky place of the guy who does sculptures out of junk are the only interesting parts of the drive until you get to the waterfront which is another 5 km away.

By: hanseich

hanseich — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:10:37 +0000

Diego,

I don’t agree with you at all. How is this any different then building a house on a plane and digging down for the foundation? For this house, they just dug into the mountain. Maybe the cliff is all that this person was able to buy? or maybe they owned it already. I would also say that the cliff is changed less in geographic functionality than plain land that you build a house on.

You should really look what it takes in energy to build the building materials for a house. These containers could have just been thrown out to be molten down. You should try to build something like that and then be told by someone into your face, that this is not green.

Here is the other “joke”, the temr green is not reglemented. Anyone can use it in any way. Which I must agree with you sucks, but it is up to the consumer to smarten up and look into the product, and not just taking the manufacturers word for it.

Peace out, Hans

By: Fractal

Fractal — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:11:06 +0000

Well, and where is the green onto this kind of project?

It’s nice to recycle, industrial waste, but what happens with the environment?
Cliffs ecology (not important at all I suppose) is being destroyed… then… you could built it on coast zones, up the sea, over the beach, cliffs only gets suitability to coastal environment, or river, or lakes…

Green must be 100% ecological, not recycled, alternative, or whatever

this containers could be green if location were not the cliff.

Please be careful with this questions, our environment it’s not a joke.

Thanks
Diego