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Costa ricas dedicated, designers, suppliers and constructors of quality shipping container homes. But if youre interested in containers because you see yourself living in one in the near future, you might have one. The team welded 6 shipping containers together to create a tiny little waterfront resort. Few shipping container homes across the world can match the caterpillar houses grandeur. Costa rica container homes and homesites for sale in jaco. Were dedicated to reader privacy so we never track you. Casa incubo is another great example of a shipping container home design from costa rica. On this site you will find information on buying shipping containers, and how to build a shipping container home, office, shop, garage or storage unit. He likely did not know that he would one day revolutionize the building industry as well. There are plenty of readymade, prefab options in container architecture available too. Taking a different approach than many on the list, edo architecture was commissioned to design an entire complex of rentable shipping container residences in cove park, scotland.
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