Gallery: Home Less Home: Shipping Cont...

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This two-in-one exhibition at this year's fantastic, human-orientated Copenhagen Design Week showed design-minded and curious passersby by that we can live with less - and actually, that we probably have much more than what we need.

‘HomeLessHome’ is a small home composed of rough frames that was built entirely from standard parts and materials like scaffolding pipes, bright red shipping containers, and waterproof plastic mesh, creating a super-basic house.

The house could be installed in either a rural area or a city, does not require a foundation, and can be quick and easily assembled by fastening ‘walls’ with standard plastic fasteners.

The house is designed to be flexible, modern, and mobile – plants hang in plastic IKEA bags so that they can be easily transported to the shelter’s next location.

3 Comments

Chantelle Prince September 22, 2011 at 9:55 am

Shipping containers maybe, but yikes all that plastic!? An interesting idea done badly!
Copenhagen Design Week September 13, 2011 at 3:27 am

Just a small correction here – the HomeLessHome container is a project from Erik Juul Architects – http://www.erikjuul.com while the IKEA home at Højbro Plads was a different installation next to the one from Erik Juul. So this container structure you see on the pictures is NOT made in cooperation with IKEA
Eric September 13, 2011 at 2:01 am

I would totally live in a place like this, though it might get a bit drafty…and it might be hard to keep the bugs out at night…