Adam Kalkin’s Old Lady House is a Modern Shipping Container Masterpiece

Despite being called a family, all of its decorations - concrete floors, large glass plates, sliding doors, stainless steel, beams and pillars - all exemplify avant-garde industrial aesthetics. However, in order to maintain the house according to a rustic environment, please use natural materials such as fir floor and sliding doors of mahogany such as niche, half bath, pantry, machine, washing, etc. even in a narrow place.

One-third of the main living area is occupied by a 12-foot kitchen island where owners can prepare meals while enjoying the quiet scenery of the forest. With two large sofas next to the kitchen space you can relax by the cozy fireplace. Since ripples are all hidden behind dry walls, you can not say that you are in a container unless you look through the stairs by chance.

I recently wrote a report on the BBC Future Now container transportation industry. It is a new brand of BBCFuture. My colleague Adam Proctor and I jumped into the world's largest container ship Ebba Maersk in Felixstowe, England. Overnight we headed to the busiest port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Europe.

Container - Container is an eight - part audio documentary on how world trade can change the economy and ourselves. Host and correspondent Alexis Madrigal will take a boat, sailor, visit the world of technology, tugboat, warehouse and crane. When Donald Trump threatened to abandon the global economic order, the container provided a useful, profound and odd view of how capitalism is now functioning. Sarah Marga and I launched Happenstance for product search in early 2016 (see here). As we need to develop a platform to automate everything, the project is still suspended. There are currently more than 5000 waiting lists. I think that this might be a wonderful service. I need to invest more time and money for this project.

Innovation on the use of shipping container houses at 1,500 square feet of maritime container house was awarded by Studio H: T, which was awarded the Colorado Architects Association's Innovation Practice Award. Customers are interested in recycling materials and reducing energy costs, and designers have achieved these goals. Two 40-foot containers are used for sleeping and working. Middle section, access area, dining area, living area, upper loft and so on. Family platform beds surrounded by fir, pine and poplar trees can easily move from inside to outside loft deck to make it easy to sleep outdoors. In addition, the doors, floors and decks are made of recycled materials, the central wood stove is refilled with nearby trees, and at home they use solar power, passive cooling, green roof, solar power generation equipment Off grid Life is enabled.