CONTAINER HOME

Design your own shipping container home in 3D -- and get a real, buildable house out of it. This is a fully parametric container configurator, not a picture gallery. Start with one container or two, set them side by side or stack them, turn them on the plot, draw the rooms inside, cut windows and doors into the steel, put a terrace on the roof and watch the 3D model update instantly. Every pier, twistlock, column, board, cable and screw in the model is a real catalog item -- the configurator generates a complete, priced Bill of Quantities as you build, so what you see is exactly what you order.

• One or two containers, side by side or stacked, turned in 90-degree steps on your plot -- the second box joins the first with a passage through the shared wall
• Precast piers under every corner, sized to the footprint, with the twistlocks, anchors and steel columns that carry a stacked box
• The envelope built as real layers, not a painted box: the insulation, the lining, the facade cladding, the roof build-up, the gutters and the flashing over the joint between two containers
• Windows and doors cut into the steel wherever you tap, each with its lintel, jambs and leaf -- and the door types you cycle through in the shared wall: single leaf, double sliding, or an open passage you drag to size
• Draw the rooms on the plan and the partitions go up with them, cut to length with a tap; name a bathroom and the kitchen corner appears beside it, on the one wall that carries the water and the drain
• A bathroom and a kitchen you cycle through -- shower cubicle, big shower or bath; a short, a long or an L-shaped kitchen -- with the beds, wardrobes and bunk beds of the shared fitout catalogue in the other rooms
• The electrics wired room by room: the panel, the circuits, the sockets and switches kept clear of every opening, and the cables run along the walls to the box that has the panel
• Heating and cooling by split units: one outdoor unit placed where the pipe runs are shortest, the refrigerant lines routed along the ceiling and over every opening, on their own circuit from the panel
• Stacked boxes get the floor cut-out and the interior stair between them; a roof terrace gets its decking, railing and exterior stair -- joined across two containers or one terrace each
• A pergola over the terrace or beside the house, with its posts, beams and slats counted like everything else
• Trade views that show one system at a time -- the electrics, the heating and cooling -- with the rest of the house faded, so you can check the runs before anyone drills a hole
• An architect's floor plan drawn from the same model -- rooms, openings, dimension lines -- added to your PDF with one tap, over a photo of your own sketch if you have one
• Stand the finished house on your own plot at full size in augmented reality, straight from your phone, and share the design with a link
• Instant, itemised Bill of Quantities with real supplier part numbers, in metric or imperial -- down to the twistlocks, the cable and the screws