Green Roof For Shipping Container Home

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

Green roof for shipping container home.

Set in san antonio this container home acts as a guest house to a larger residence. A sophisticated conversion of a recycled shipping container. Fair faced spruce plywood lines the walls and ceiling a warm inviting cabin feel that is practical and stylish. 1 clean and de rust the roof.

Container home with a green roof by poteet architects. Another option is to turn the top of your container home into a green roof. After all green roofs provide container homes with better insulation and a whole lot of aesthetic appeal. Build planter boxes to line the top of your container.

2 seal with bitumen and cover with heavy duty dpm. Then you can head up there to garden and harvest fresh produce. Green roofed container home office studio. Designed by poteet architects the container features a range of sustainable design strategies to reduce its environmental impact and energy consumption.

Shield roof solutions is proud to support catholic relief services habitat for humanity and northern illinois food bank. Installing a successful green roof means that you ll have to minimize that as much as possible. Visit our friends at container home usa to design and build a better affordable and trendy green alternative to traditional sustainable housing by using iso shipping containers. Hang a shipping pallet that you can then use as an herb planter.

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. 2 simple shipping container home having spots of bare soil can be quite an eyesore.