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40ft HiCube + 2x8ft Shipping Container Modular Concept House
Thanks for unintentionally inspiring me to finish off this old project, Hans!
In my last post I mentioned spacious design - this is not one of those, lol. Nonetheless, with clever planning and innovative ideas, it is possible to create comfortable, compact, and functional living spaces for families, using standard Caravan/Campervan products and dimensions. And as I also mentioned earlier, allowing natural light is very important in alleviating feelings of claustrophobia in such houses.
When I first downloaded Sweet Home 3D two years ago, I had seen this nifty prototype folding container house while browsing Youtube. I cant find the video anymore, but essentially they had built a 20ft box on wheels that could fit inside a 20ft shipping container. The box could be rolled out in different directions to extend the living space. It was very clever. Following further research, I realised a standard 8ft or 20ft container (on wheels) would fit comfortably inside a 40ft HiCube shipping container.
So without further ado, here is my first design inspired by that innovative "expanding house" idea. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have quite a large family. I thought it would be a challenge to try and fit us all in, with a guest bedroom thrown in for good measure! So this design sleeps 10, and has two bathrooms.
Unfortunately I cannot show a floorplan for this design as I was just learning how to use the software at the time, and there are many errors which make the model difficult to pull apart. I may try a fly over without the roof when I put together the virtual tour video.
In this modular house, the 8ft containers are kept in place with clips on the false floor and roof, and where the containers join each other. Note the kitchen container doors are used to create the "front door" and an interior wall. Triple bunks fold out from the wall and the bottom bunks can be used as sofas. For transport, the bunks are folded up, the 8ft container doors are closed, and the kitchen and guest bedroom are rolled into the 40 footer along tracks or on wheels. Other furniture in these two "bedrooms" is also on wheels and can be stored between, or inside, the two 8ft containers. The false floor is folded up and the roof (container door) is closed. Here are some spiffy pics of the inside ...
Full Resolution Image Format: 1920x1080 @ Q4(Best).
The renders were going so well that I thought I might actually get away without any artifacts this time - but then I tried to render the Ensuite to the Master Bedroom ...
Note also the mirror like reflection at the bottom of the shower glass ... looks like the engine got confused. If it werent for the fact that I had successfully rendered the shower glass previously in different areas and houses, I had thought the problem may have been caused by errors within the model itself. And rendering at a larger resolution doesn't fix either issue ...
I don't know what it is - maybe an error in processing shadow blends on transparencies in crowded areas - but it can get quite bad sometimes. And as you will see, it cannot be an object embedded in the wall ....
This is when I started to think that the "Incandescent Light Source" was producing better results than the "Halogen Light Source." I'd got bored of bathroom renders by then, so I decided to do some different angles of the Middle Bedroom and go back to the Ensuite later, when the problem began occurring under incandescent lighting as well.
This glass door produced a curious error ... and though it appears related to production of shadow, time of day did not make a difference (though granted, sunlight doesnt hit this side, no matter the time of day.)
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Hi!
I'm a neophyte regarding Sweet Home 3D, but i've recently became aware of the possibility of container home. Your design is particulary interesting because if share, would allow user who are neither professionnal designer nor yet home owner to test design. I couldn't see any way of downloading your schematics. Would you allow it? In any cases, many thanks for your work, it's great looking.
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G'day Again!
After 18+ months I've finally managed to upload the flyover and virtual tour of my 40ft + 2x8ft modular Shipping Container concept house (above) that I designed in Sweet Home 3D.
At the time of creating these designs, I had also started playing around with Lumion. This is the best Lumion render of my Sweet Home 3D designed container house.
I'm a neophyte regarding Sweet Home 3D, but i've recently became aware of the possibility of container home. Your design is particulary interesting because if share, would allow user who are neither professionnal designer nor yet home owner to test design. I couldn't see any way of downloading your schematics. Would you allow it? In any cases, many thanks for your work, it's great looking.
Sincerely, Mathieu
Apologies for the delay in my reply. Thanks for checking out my container home designs. I think I mentioned earlier that I'm a 'wanna-be architect', so I'm not sure what type of schematics you were interested in - a more detailed floor-plan? or if you were wanting the .sh3D work-file (which would probably be more helpful)? And for which container home? I'd love to see any container home projects you get involved with.
Both of these shipping container homes are designed to be off-grid portables and therefore incorporate extensive water storage under the main bedroom. I would design much differently for a container house connected to mains water.
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Excellent work. Have you considered doing your work in Sweethome3d but then exporting to object format and then bringing the project into Blender to do full raytraced animations? I've dabbled in that with my Enterprise project and gotten very good results. I was also able to animate the doors opening and closing and lights blinking on and off.
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You folks are always so helpful so I'll try to get your thoughts. I'm designing a major apartment complex to submit to the city. I do have the container walls okay but I can't find a model for the doors anywhere. Ideally I'm trying to find one with one door open so I can put a window behind it. Thanks.
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Try this container. You can open the doors in Sweet Home 3D.
This shipping container is available in the BlendSwap library.
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