Container classroom

Me and my husband has always wanted to buy a recycled container (kontena) and renovate it to make it our studio. If we were crazy enough, we would make a small house out of it. But, lack of skilled worker is a limitation that we faced. Of course, we have experts! However my budget is just waaaay beyond what we can afford to pay these experts. Oh well, a concrete house would do, for now. Will definitely put our dreams on paper and finally on ground. I came across lots of images and projects about wonderful projects using recycled container.

Image below shows an office made of recycled container. Ohh I so want this!

image from here

I also came across a project by Adam Kalkin, which is also interesting but he took the container home concept to a bigger scale. Not the standard small container we Malaysians always see at construction sites. One of his project can be found here.

What interest me the most is a project done by Tsai Design Studio - a school! It is located at  Durbanville, Capetown. The school - Vissershok Primary School, is a rural school dedicated to the children of farm workers and underprivileged communities living in Du Noon. This project is sponsored by three South African companies – Woolworths, Safmarine and AfriSam. For further reading, click here.

Below are some of the images from the website.

I personally think this is a very good project and it is also proof that this can be done! Not only it is cool for an office/commercial/school, it is wayy cooler if it is a house :)