Shipping Container Roof Garden

This green roof was created on a shipping container in mytholmroyd june 2019.

Shipping container roof garden.

Now we ve launched our latest conversion project to the public the garden office. The ultimate goal here is to have the entire roof covered in so much green that the brownish shade of soil becomes practically invisible. This way not only does it provide shade but there is air flow to provide cooling during the hot texas summer months. Universal containers designs and builds bespoke shipping container conversions all unique to individual specifications.

Shipping crate house with rooftop garden built from a used shipping crate as a guest house in san antonio this residence has sustainability in mind with every aspect of its design. Having spots of bare soil can be quite an eyesore. In any case you can either buy a. Stacking shipping containers up to create more living space is a good alternative to placing them side by side and cutting structurally compromising holes in them.

1 clean and de rust the roof. On each side of the container roof attach a wooden beam into the steel plates. 2 seal with bitumen and cover with heavy duty dpm. Sheds fashioned from new or used shipping containers are a cost effective and simple way to add additional indoor space to your backyard.

The rooftop garden is raised slightly off the top of the container. To install a shed style roof on your shipping container weld right angled steel plates across the length of the shipping container on both sides. And it s a super sustainable design. 3 construct wooden frame around edge of the roof ours is 225mm high made from decking timber on the outside and bitumen coated battening timber on the inside.

Screw the trusses into this beam. It s no secret that space is a luxury in your home and it s not always possible to transform a spare room into an office environment that is fit for purpose. Introducing the universal containers garden room. From poteet architects it sits in the sun in south san antonio texas.

Installing a successful green roof means that you ll have to minimize that as much as possible. Here an idea for roofing a shipping container for water collection and heat abatement. 2 simple shipping container home. This shipping container makes a fantastic guest house with a roof garden to boot.

Envisioned by poteet architects the house sits on a platform made from old telephone poles its used water is funneled to gardens on its roof and it includes other nods to the environment like a composting toilet.