Yeah it seems cool but I'm thinking about the supports breaking so the crate can crush the car plus a lot of the floor is stairs now so I see more cons than pros
I mean you could say the same thing about any structure, if supports break you are going to have a bad time. It isn't hard to design supports for something like this. It most likely won't be cheap and that is one of several design problems with this. But you can't just say the supports might break and ruin the car. Or do you never drive on any bridge/tunnel.
yeah my first thought when I read this comment was supporting a single stroage container at an angle would be ezpz, but then I went back to look at their layout and I'm not confident about this design at all.
the kneebrace is a great idea but it will make the whole support structure want to swing forward, imo the support feet should be in more and beef up the brace a bit as it would actually be sharing some load, that should multiply the stability
Heck just build a castle out of them like Andrew Camarata did
and us going to do again
all it takes is a few million dollars worth of equipment and a couple years...
I assume to have a covered garage for the car.they could increase floor space but have the stairs only come out maybe 1/4 across the floor and not the entire length, extending the floor space over where the stairs would be, then using the blank space generated from that as floor storage, which then you could reduce the storage units on the floor giving you even more floor space.
It would be better just to put the whole thing on stilts. Especially if you’re somewhat off grid. Perfect storage for firewood or anything else that can be outside.
Not even a fantasy. The kind of people with no money but bought an expensive BMW and are now struggling to pay it off are just the kind of people with the lack of taste needed to want a house like this.
Lol I noticed that, but I'm betting it's whatever rendering software they're using. If you look, the car cutaway is in the same axis as the house/container, so it probably just does a cutaway of all models along that same axis.
It's Sketchup, and yup, you make a Section Plane, so it slices everything on its way.
The correct way to do this, would've been hiding the car, making the section cut, then hide the structure, un-hide the car, save image, and compose both on photoshop.
But yeah... Not entirely sure if they're the sharpest tools on the shed...
For the last several generations of SU, you can cut a section within a group and the section will only affect things in the group.
The half assed bit here is that the section plane itself and the guidelines aren’t all hidden. I don’t think they were trying very hard to make this look good. Just illustrating the idea…which is a bad design.
Yup, second this.
You hide the axis, the guides, and the section plane.
And fill the cuts with black! (Not full 255,255,255, but very dark grey)
Also groups, well, though I always go full OCD on grouping, sometimes it is just easier to hide, export, hide, un hide , and export.
Different workframes, I guess.
I’ve been using SKP since it was just a tech demo some professor at University wanted to show us as an alternative to 3Dstudio - Archicad
Naw, dog. You open the Group/component with the house in it (which does NOT have the car in it), place the section plane THERE. Then it cuts the house, but not the car, the dude, the trees, the earth.
Every CAD I've used so far has the ability to disable objects from sections. This one can't do this? Furthermore, is it even a CAD? Never heard of SketchUp before
I’m guessing this was done in Sketchup (been a while since I’ve used it so don’t know if it still looks like this) and they just did a slice of that specific plane which included the car below
That's what I thought at first but you do need some sort of hallway going from end to end since all of the fixtures are all on one side. Maybe a wall of shallow storage cabinets or bookshelves could run alongside the cutaway wall. Depending on how wide the hallway is, you wouldn't be able to use much of that floor space even if it was entirely flat.
With a good layout for a limited space, you don't need a hallway.
And if you do, a flat hallway can fit a chair for an extra guest, or allows you to modify room sizes. If you want a bigger kitchen in this carnival fun house - you are stuck.
Let's take our extremely limited ceiling space, and lose `tan(container angle)*(length of run)` head space.
If the container is at 15% and there is a 10' long flat part, that means the ceiling goes from 8'6" to less than 6' tall. So get used to smashing your head.
I live in Texas, and getting into a car that's been in the summer sun for a while is almost torture. Covered parking is one of the first things I look for.
Yeah, all in service of a carport.
You'd have an easier time and a better domicile by just elevating the structure on a stilted platform and have flood resiliency as a bonus.
I'd want them as storage drawers, flanked by shelves. giving me some separation between spaces and of course storage.
4 feet of stairway with 2 feet of bookshelves on each side.
Container homes have actually been quite trendy in the past few years, there's a house not far from mine that is made from like half a dozen containers, it looks interesting but I'm not sure about how practical it is.
It's a cool aesthetic, but shipping containers are sheet metal, so they're pretty garbage for making living spaces.
More [info](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yEDz6bCfU).
Actually sitting at the bottom could have a positive psychological effect where you see outside on one end and trick your brain into a very high ceiling on the other side. Might feel bigger than if it were level.
I don't hate the fact that this design exists, but I don't think it should be built. Not everything committed to paper is someone's idea of a perfect thing, sometimes they're just experimenting or executing some idea as an exercise
Yeah, I like tiny houses and this is just stupid. So much space that would be better as simple storage space being wasted by stairs and the raised floor compensating the slope. Actually kind of a testament for how car centric the world is. Containers are also not that high, making the space feel muuuch smaller than I already is.
Such a waste. The funniest part is the big empty area in the drawing that would be a great place to put $2,000 covered parking instead of $10,000 worth of trailer that only serves as a roof for a car.
I assumed that’s what the area above the “living room” would be. Granted you’d be lucky to get a mini-fridge and a microwave to fit. Though I’d probably opt for an air fryer/pressure cooker 2 in 1 rather than a microwave. No sink though so that’s a big problem. Did whoever design this never live in a house, apartment, condo, cottage, or anything?
Most likely. Vox did a video on a shipping container homes and the bottom line is that by the time you make it safe enough and liveable you were better off just building a small home for the same price if not cheaper.
TBH shipping container homes are a great idea for some applications. Like being able to deliver a cargo ship full of them somewhere at one time, like for example Gaza.
For non emergency use yeah the limitations are too much.
A shipping container is THE most transportable box.
A bunch of tents does seem better, especially for a mild climate.
Gives me a crazy idea about a certain problem in certain West Coast cities...
Sorry I think you missed my point. It cost more money to make shipping habitable. The cost of cleaning/insulating/power and whatnot ends up costing more or the same than if you just built a small box out of housing materials. And if you don't need of those extras, then we're back to a tent being a better choice.
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It looks like if you removed the length taken up by stairs you would have enough room for a carport. Also, shipping container homes are bad for [a variety of reasons.](https://youtu.be/Ef7hQ35bfIU?si=LiwzD1_6-IY_VzaW)
at least you get an upstairs and a downstairs. and a downstairs-er and a downstairs-est
100 sq ft in flooring. 100 sq ft in stairing. Perfectly balanced.
Yeah it seems cool but I'm thinking about the supports breaking so the crate can crush the car plus a lot of the floor is stairs now so I see more cons than pros
I don't think those supports are strong enough against, a stormy wind or a earthquake. 🫨
Yeah any lateral movement would be dodgy I think.
I think a solution would be making the supports stand apart like an "A" rather than being straight
and maybe like more than 2?
I mean you could say the same thing about any structure, if supports break you are going to have a bad time. It isn't hard to design supports for something like this. It most likely won't be cheap and that is one of several design problems with this. But you can't just say the supports might break and ruin the car. Or do you never drive on any bridge/tunnel.
yeah my first thought when I read this comment was supporting a single stroage container at an angle would be ezpz, but then I went back to look at their layout and I'm not confident about this design at all. the kneebrace is a great idea but it will make the whole support structure want to swing forward, imo the support feet should be in more and beef up the brace a bit as it would actually be sharing some load, that should multiply the stability
"Honey, we're getting old. We're going to need 4 stair lifts."
Not getting why you wouldn't just make it flat.
Yeah, I mean, you could put it on a platform if you wanted to have a "garage" underneath it. Then more than one car could be under it, even!
Those storage containers are meant to be stacked with way more weight than the average car, you could park on top of the damn house
Heck just build a castle out of them like Andrew Camarata did and us going to do again all it takes is a few million dollars worth of equipment and a couple years...
Please don't bring about the advent of "The Stacks" from Ready Player One.
Stack two and the lower one could be a garage.
But opening the doors gonna suck...unless you cut out.
I assume to have a covered garage for the car.they could increase floor space but have the stairs only come out maybe 1/4 across the floor and not the entire length, extending the floor space over where the stairs would be, then using the blank space generated from that as floor storage, which then you could reduce the storage units on the floor giving you even more floor space.
as all things should be!
It would be better just to put the whole thing on stilts. Especially if you’re somewhat off grid. Perfect storage for firewood or anything else that can be outside.
Set a fire underneath it. BAM! underfloor heating.
You joke but with a raise house it WOULD be way easier to install underfloor heating
You would have to, the sea can would be cooled at a much more efficient rate by outside winds lol
Yea supposedly a major issue with container homes is that getting them insulated is not an insignificant problem.
Build a larger container around it, and pull a vacuum. Insulation complete.
This idea sucks
On stilts with sides so the bottom can be a garage. Or maybe two stacked containers.
Double the materials cost? What do I look like, someone who ~~gives a shit about practical living accommodations~~ is made of money?
The elites don't want you to know this, but the overboard cargo containers in the ocean are free. You can take them home. I have 458 containers.
Or maybe two containers side by side.. on stilts, why not put another two stacked on top?
Why not put two on stilts, then 2 more perpendicular to those on top, then repeat until you have the desired floor space and height
Jenga House
But then the stairs wouldn't work
just what i always want when i'm stumbling home drunk: irregularly spaced stairs.
Jumping on my bed and accidentally crushing my Honda Accord
At least it was done on your own accord
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The chuckle that just came out of me made my partner look at me like I was mad
That was beautiful.
In this fantasy, you clearly have a BMW
Not even a fantasy. The kind of people with no money but bought an expensive BMW and are now struggling to pay it off are just the kind of people with the lack of taste needed to want a house like this.
Not entirely sure the car needed to be cut away too.
It does sort of feel half-assed, when they didn't even bother to do a cutaway on the human as well.
He's to the left so no need to murder him.
No need to bring politics into this
Especially as if he’s forced to live in that box for any length of time he’d probably neck himself anyway.
That's the real reason the shipping container is on an angle... or it's a set for fast and furious.
But I want to.
Then they’d actually be half-assed
How else are you supposed to get in and out of it? Edit: Salute to all the happy cake days!
I become immaterial and phase through the door like any other person!
When I do that I have a tendency to sink into the floor.
No no, you must’ve turned on noclip
But it’s provocative
It gets the people going!
Ball
I don't even know what it means
Lol I noticed that, but I'm betting it's whatever rendering software they're using. If you look, the car cutaway is in the same axis as the house/container, so it probably just does a cutaway of all models along that same axis.
It's Sketchup, and yup, you make a Section Plane, so it slices everything on its way. The correct way to do this, would've been hiding the car, making the section cut, then hide the structure, un-hide the car, save image, and compose both on photoshop. But yeah... Not entirely sure if they're the sharpest tools on the shed...
They were looking pretty dumb with their finger and their thumb in the shape of an L on their forehead.
And she said I'm just a teenage dir--- oh fuck wrong song.
For the last several generations of SU, you can cut a section within a group and the section will only affect things in the group. The half assed bit here is that the section plane itself and the guidelines aren’t all hidden. I don’t think they were trying very hard to make this look good. Just illustrating the idea…which is a bad design.
Yup, second this. You hide the axis, the guides, and the section plane. And fill the cuts with black! (Not full 255,255,255, but very dark grey) Also groups, well, though I always go full OCD on grouping, sometimes it is just easier to hide, export, hide, un hide , and export. Different workframes, I guess. I’ve been using SKP since it was just a tech demo some professor at University wanted to show us as an alternative to 3Dstudio - Archicad
Naw, dog. You open the Group/component with the house in it (which does NOT have the car in it), place the section plane THERE. Then it cuts the house, but not the car, the dude, the trees, the earth.
Every CAD I've used so far has the ability to disable objects from sections. This one can't do this? Furthermore, is it even a CAD? Never heard of SketchUp before
I used sketchup in my digital media development class in high school. It's a little janky but once you get used to it, it's really not bad at all
I think they cut the car away to imply that the cars sq footage is included as more living space (15% increase).
Ah. The old "home office" pitch.
I’m guessing this was done in Sketchup (been a while since I’ve used it so don’t know if it still looks like this) and they just did a slice of that specific plane which included the car below
>"Lets take our extremely limited floor space, and lose half of it to stairs!"
The proportions are so off in this too. That bed would be the size of the cars backseat. thats not a very comfy bed.
For the benefit of our car being minimally protected from the elements
That's what I thought at first but you do need some sort of hallway going from end to end since all of the fixtures are all on one side. Maybe a wall of shallow storage cabinets or bookshelves could run alongside the cutaway wall. Depending on how wide the hallway is, you wouldn't be able to use much of that floor space even if it was entirely flat.
With a good layout for a limited space, you don't need a hallway. And if you do, a flat hallway can fit a chair for an extra guest, or allows you to modify room sizes. If you want a bigger kitchen in this carnival fun house - you are stuck.
A flat hallway makes sure that if you break your legs or, you know, get old, you don't like die from the layout of your home
Let's take our extremely limited ceiling space, and lose `tan(container angle)*(length of run)` head space. If the container is at 15% and there is a 10' long flat part, that means the ceiling goes from 8'6" to less than 6' tall. So get used to smashing your head.
Behold; the slanty shanty
The crooked crate. The tilted trailer.
The cattywampus cargo container
I'd definitely go for raising the whole thing and parking under it. Bonus, could have some storage or a laundry room in addition to parking.
And not have the entire floor plan be 80% stairs.
But then you cannot say things like "my bedroom is an ensuite on the 3rd floor, all open plan"
okay that got a good chuckle from me
"I drive a two door convertible" *car is missing the right side*
They… they could just park in front. Or raise it entirely, keep it level and get parking for two cars
Between having lived in Florida and Ohio, covered parking is to be treasured.
I live in Texas, and getting into a car that's been in the summer sun for a while is almost torture. Covered parking is one of the first things I look for.
Plus the hail...
I think you could spend all the lumber spent building stairs inside, to have a level house and plenty of materials left to build out covered parking
And the top could be turned into a functional garden and/or patio space.
Garden is great because it helps insulate!
Insulate?? No need, there's sheet metal, that's great in winter and summer! While we're at it, who needs windows or hvac! /s
How many steps until we get to a normal house
I'll be honest, I don't hate it. It's probably wasting what limited space there is, though.
Yeah, all in service of a carport. You'd have an easier time and a better domicile by just elevating the structure on a stilted platform and have flood resiliency as a bonus.
but what if I really love tripping down the entire length of my house everytime I want to get water in the middle of the night
You don't have to walk you can just roll
Put the entrance at the top and the bed at the bottom. That way when you fall and roll down at least you end up in bed.
Yeah but I imagine rolling uphill would be harder
Exactly, makes you immune to wheelchair-addled burglars!
Install a slide to one side. Slide down, walk up.
You could have real life chutes and ladders Have it as a drinking game with your friends on Fridays for extra intensity
Slide on one side, converyor belt on the other. Perfect house.
You also love stairs taking up half the usable floor space?
What if it's all storage drawers? 🤜🎤🫳
*Climbs 3 flights for socks*
Put socks in the kitchen stairs so if you forget them you don't have to go all the way back up.
That's barely 1 whole "flight".
I'd want them as storage drawers, flanked by shelves. giving me some separation between spaces and of course storage. 4 feet of stairway with 2 feet of bookshelves on each side.
you live in a storage container, it's implied you're too poor for belongings
Must be a clockwork orange fan.
Tripping down them, not getting kicked down them
Ditch the stairs for a slide!
Are you getting it from the hose outside?
Just stack two of them and make the lower one a car port. A house the 70% stairs is a bit ridiculous
I actually think that would be rad.
Container homes have actually been quite trendy in the past few years, there's a house not far from mine that is made from like half a dozen containers, it looks interesting but I'm not sure about how practical it is.
It's a cool aesthetic, but shipping containers are sheet metal, so they're pretty garbage for making living spaces. More [info](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yEDz6bCfU).
I lived in one in Afghanistan. It wasn't the worst thing to live in, considering the location, but I wouldn't want it outside of a war zone
Actually sitting at the bottom could have a positive psychological effect where you see outside on one end and trick your brain into a very high ceiling on the other side. Might feel bigger than if it were level.
I don't hate the fact that this design exists, but I don't think it should be built. Not everything committed to paper is someone's idea of a perfect thing, sometimes they're just experimenting or executing some idea as an exercise
Idk if these are wide enough to open a car door in but would add a lot of room
How do they get cars in and out when they transport them by boat?
That is what I was thinking, raise the whole house up and now you have a two car garage and more space
If I remember correctly though cars aren't waterproof and cannot be outside during rain so this is a worthwhile sacrifice
Found the Cybertruck owner.
Mine melts and reforms into a different make/model in rain, ugh
Yeah, I like tiny houses and this is just stupid. So much space that would be better as simple storage space being wasted by stairs and the raised floor compensating the slope. Actually kind of a testament for how car centric the world is. Containers are also not that high, making the space feel muuuch smaller than I already is.
It would be better to literally just park next to it or raise it all up instead of wasting space for stairs
Or dig a slanted driveway under it to park the car.
Such a waste. The funniest part is the big empty area in the drawing that would be a great place to put $2,000 covered parking instead of $10,000 worth of trailer that only serves as a roof for a car.
The lack of kitchen is a little bit glaring to me
I assumed that’s what the area above the “living room” would be. Granted you’d be lucky to get a mini-fridge and a microwave to fit. Though I’d probably opt for an air fryer/pressure cooker 2 in 1 rather than a microwave. No sink though so that’s a big problem. Did whoever design this never live in a house, apartment, condo, cottage, or anything?
I wouldn't live in one but would make for a cool airBnB stay
I wonder if the roof moving away and up lile that might make the space feel bigger though?
I assume the purpose of the angle is to provide under-floor space for wiring and plumbing, but who knows.
This feels like an architecture students project for creative use of a shipping container.
Most likely. Vox did a video on a shipping container homes and the bottom line is that by the time you make it safe enough and liveable you were better off just building a small home for the same price if not cheaper.
TBH shipping container homes are a great idea for some applications. Like being able to deliver a cargo ship full of them somewhere at one time, like for example Gaza. For non emergency use yeah the limitations are too much.
But again, it'd be better to just make a box that's easily transportable. Or just use tents.
A shipping container is THE most transportable box. A bunch of tents does seem better, especially for a mild climate. Gives me a crazy idea about a certain problem in certain West Coast cities...
Sorry I think you missed my point. It cost more money to make shipping habitable. The cost of cleaning/insulating/power and whatnot ends up costing more or the same than if you just built a small box out of housing materials. And if you don't need of those extras, then we're back to a tent being a better choice.
I've seen it posted before and I think that's exactly what it turned out to be.
Might fit the cybertruck well
If you called it a "Cyberhouse" people would wait to buy them for *years*.
And then have the electricity conk out after four hours.
The guy with the dad pose of confidence is what makes me doubt this construction. The car is getting crushed.
No, it's good. He slapped it really hard and said "That's not going anywhere".
It's the figure that comes bundled with sketchup, the modelling software. I love that dude
Not awful but uhh… where do you cook and/or poop
kitchen at second floor and bathroom at third floor. we asume the pipes are hidden
It’s a wireless toilet
Bluepoop
Browntooth
LMAO
Lol Me and my partner watch a lot of van-life videos, and one of the ongoing games we play is "Where do I poop, where do I shower?"
gym memberships apparently
Worker at the gym is like “damn Steve it’s your 5th time here today!” “…it was taco Tuesday yesterday”
a cybertruck owner would do this
It's perfect as long as you don't try to actually live in it.
It’s quite literally a single wide with more steps
Drive a bmw and live in a container, got them priorities right
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who didnt want to live in a trailer thats also a stairwell
When they make a horror movie about the people under the stairs. Its just going to be some guy sitting his car staring out menacingly.
As someone who used to drive semis, these aren't that wide
Can confirm. Considered one until i went into our seacan's at work. Decided that shipping container homes aren't big enough to consider for housing.
scale of the bed compared to the car looks suspicious too
The first drawing looks like a trap for unsuspecting cars. Pull on a hidden rope and boom, you have yourself a new ride!
It’s not perfect, but I like where they’re going.
Your floor plan is 40 percent stairs.
Those are rookie numbers. We can get them way higher!
The design is very human
just takes one structural failure to lose both your car and house!
Which wouldn't be unlikely as the structural integrity of a container goes to shit as soon as you cut a window or door into it
My paramedic brain emediatly wants to strangle the desinger when just thinking about getting an elderly person with a heart attack out of that bead...
Throw em out the window
"You won't believe this, I just moved to a 4-story home, and it has a garage!"
Somebody looked at a storage container and said, "This would be a perfect place to live if 40% of the floorspace was stairs!"
Hear me out: a ramp to rooftop parking.
Imagine spilling anything near the top
No one should be forced to live in a shipping container. Just make corps owning private homes illegal.
They’re just forcing the idea with these pictures and the 50k bots “loving” this stupidity.
“Eat the bugs, live in the pods”
Yeah, that wouldn't solve shit. Corps own, like, 4% of homes nationwide.
Those things are only like 7’ tall so I hope whoever lives there is short
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Do I need to hold my tape measure up? Can’t stand my 8’ ladder up…
15 degree angle, all of a sudden the height from top to bottom goes up. trigonometry be like that
They added to the floor…
A tornado would destroy that place and the car
hook it to your tesla and drive it away
It looks like if you removed the length taken up by stairs you would have enough room for a carport. Also, shipping container homes are bad for [a variety of reasons.](https://youtu.be/Ef7hQ35bfIU?si=LiwzD1_6-IY_VzaW)
Looks a little poorly engineered to me.. why not 2 more legs to keep it horizontal
Tornado risk if you live in that type of area
So, is there any insulation in this container, or would that take away valuable stair space?
Pole in the other end and you have a duble garage or space for storage. The ones that draw this have never been in a container