The Push Button House starts as shipping Container Houses until a button is pushed, at which point motorized walls start to unfold, and it turns into a furnished house. It's not fully functioning, given that there is no roof or walls or plumbing, but it is a good conversation piece.
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Dwight Doerkson has developed "an affordable eco friendly building that’s transportable and doesn’t need to be hooked up to the grid" out of shipping containers. He cuts out an entire wall and hinges it, so when you want to leave your ecopod you simply flip a switch and a solar-powered winch pulls up the deck and closes the box.
The Habode is not strictly speaking a container home, but is built to be handled like a container and then busts out of the dimensional limitations of the traditional steel box.
It seems that most multi-shipping container homes make use of only three or four containers. While not cramped by any means, these homes still fall on the petite side when it comes to square footage. The Redondo Beach House from prefab pioneer Peter DeMaria is made from eight shipping containers kit home. This spacious pad (20-foot ceilings and an outdoor lap pool anyone?) in the laidback community of Redondo Beach has garnered a fair amount of mainstream press — including a spot on CNN — and won coveted architectural awards, making it the definitive shipping container trophy home.
