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D.C.’s Shipping Container Apartments

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September 29, 2014, 9:23 AM

The apartments are designed as "shared housing." Each floor has a large common area with a living room and a kitchen, plus six 240-square-foot bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and study. Six containers constitute a floor of the building, and they are lined up in two rows of three. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
S:TPADrawingsGrace_JoinerDrawingsCDCD_Plan_First Floor Mod The apartments are designed as "shared housing." Each floor has a large common area with a living room and a kitchen, plus six 240-square-foot bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and study. Six containers constitute a floor of the building, and they are lined up in two rows of three. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
Price says he hopes to build a second, similar project in the area. He also envisions floating sea container homes on D.C.'s Potomac waterfront. (Travis Price Architects)
Travis Price Architects
The project initially attracted some criticism from residents living in the Northeast neighborhood, which is known for its traditional bungalows and Victorians. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The project initially attracted some criticism from residents living in the Northeast neighborhood, which is known for its traditional bungalows and Victorians. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
For Price, using sea containers in construction makes sense, ecologically. "There are over 700,000 sea containers sitting foul, going nowhere in the U.S. Remember, we imported all the stuff. All of your iPhones came in those containers, but we're not sending anything back," Price said in an earlier interview with WTOP. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
For Price, using sea containers in construction makes sense, ecologically. "There are over 700,000 sea containers sitting foul, going nowhere in the U.S. Remember, we imported all the stuff. All of your iPhones came in those containers, but we're not sending anything back," Price said in an earlier interview with WTOP. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
"We're doing all wood inside, these beautiful common spaces, tremendous windows -- like 9 ft. by 8 ft. of solid glass," architect Travis Price said in an earlier interview on the project. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
"We're doing all wood inside, these beautiful common spaces, tremendous windows -- like 9 ft. by 8 ft. of solid glass," architect Travis Price said in an earlier interview on the project. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The inside walls of the containers are cut out to create the open common room; the ends of the containers constitute the bedrooms and bathrooms. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The inside walls of the containers are cut out to create the open common room; the ends of the containers constitute the bedrooms and bathrooms. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The apartments are designed as "shared housing." Each floor has a large common area with a living room and a kitchen, plus six 240-square-foot bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and study. Six containers constitute a floor of the building, and they are lined up in two rows of three. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The units have sustainable engineered wood interiors and incorporate other energy- conserving designs. The design is also an attempt to provide modern apartments to D.C.'s growing millennial population. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The units have sustainable engineered wood interiors and incorporate other energy- conserving designs. The design is also an attempt to provide modern apartments to D.C.'s growing millennial population. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The apartments are designed as "shared housing." Each floor has a large common area with a living room and a kitchen, plus six 240-square-foot bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and study. Six containers constitute a floor of the building, and they are lined up in two rows of three. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The project initially attracted some criticism from residents living in the Northeast neighborhood, which is known for its traditional bungalows and Victorians. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The units have sustainable engineered wood interiors and incorporate other energy- conserving designs. The design is also an attempt to provide modern apartments to D.C.'s growing millennial population. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The units have sustainable engineered wood interiors and incorporate other energy- conserving designs. The design is also an attempt to provide modern apartments to D.C.'s growing millennial population. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
The apartments are designed as "shared housing." Each floor has a large common area with a living room and a kitchen, plus six 240-square-foot bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and study. Six containers constitute a floor of the building, and they are lined up in two rows of three. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
Architect Travis Price started construction on the project, called SeaUA, in July, after Catholic University graduates Sean Joiner and Matthew Grace came to Price for help rebuilding a property they knocked down. (Courtesy Travis Price Architects)
Courtesy Travis Price Architects
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