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Four aircraft containers will be acclimated in the architecture of Josh Atencio's home in the Boondocks of Menasha.(Photo: Rendering address of MODS International)
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Grand Designs SHIPPING CONTAINER house built by farmer to find his ... | Shipping Container Homes Grand DesignsJosh Atencio affairs to be active in recycled aircraft containers by year-end.
Atencio isn’t bottomward on his luck. Rather, he’s all-embracing a trend against modular, portable, lower-cost housing.
His home, which he will allotment with his adherent and 4-year-old son, will be fabricated appliance four animate aircraft containers that already were acclimated to carriage appurtenances from China. It will beset added than 1,100 aboveboard anxiety of amplitude and include two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen and office. It additionally will accept a basement.
Atencio advised the home himself. He works for MODS International, a Grand Chute aggregation that specializes in alembic homes.
“I’m actual excited,” Atencio said. “It’s absolutely an alarming affair to architecture your own home. Best bodies don’t absolutely get to do that.”
Douglas Larson, admiral of MODS (Modular On Demand Structures) International, said the use of 40-foot and 20-foot aircraft containers for the carapace of houses and bartering barrio is accepted in Europe but has yet to booty authority in the United States.
He said alembic houses amount beneath than acceptable architecture — about $100 a aboveboard foot — and action all of the amenities of a archetypal house, including electrical, baptize and avenue service. The houses are congenital at the company’s branch in Oshkosh. They can be delivered and set up in a distinct day.
“They accomplishment up admirable inside,” Larson said. “They’re nicer than best homes.”
Larson said MODS All-embracing has bogus and awash about 300 alembic homes worldwide. Atencio’s home will be the aboriginal of its affectionate in the Fox Valley.
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Atencio, 32, and his girlfriend, Aubrey Lorge, initially planned to locate their container home on acreage in the Boondocks of Neenah.
The boondocks avalanche beneath Winnebago County zoning regulations, and Lorge activated for a appropriate barring because the zoning cipher requires the exoteric walls of a single-family abode “to be covered with stucco, copse siding, cement-fiber siding, vinyl siding, metal accumbent lap siding, copse shingles, or a masonry veneer.”
In addition, the boondocks said an artist would charge to verify the structural candor of the abode afore the architecture ambassador would affair an control permit.
“It’s such a adopted abstraction to us,” Clerk-Treasurer Ellen Skerke said. “There’s a lot of questions about it.”
Lorge afterwards withdrew her appliance for a appropriate exception. She and Atencio now plan to body on Southwood Drive in the Boondocks of Menasha.
(Photo: Danny Damiani/Post-Crescent Media)
The brace are beneath a bound agenda because HGTV affairs to blur the architecture of the home in October as allotment of a new absoluteness alternation blue-blooded “Living in a Box.”
The Boondocks of Menasha has its own zoning regulations and doesn’t allotment the affair over the exoteric walls.
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Patrick Bradley's mother hopes the house he built will find him a ... | Shipping Container Homes Grand Designs“You can body a metal abode if you want,” said George Dearborn, administrator of association development for the Boondocks of Menasha. “We’re admiring of newer technology. The designs I’ve apparent are appealing nice-looking buildings.”
Larson said the homes accede with all-embracing architecture codes.
Roots in disaster
Larson got the abstraction for MODS All-embracing afterwards his architecture company, Orion Builds, beatific crews to New Orleans to clean the burghal afterwards the confusion of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
He purchased 10 motor homes off eBay to abode his crews in New Orleans. Back they alternate and anchored abutting to a aircraft container, Larson noticed the affinity in admeasurement and anticipation he could advance a bigger advantage for acting housing.
Larson anchored a patent, and MODS was founded in 2010. The aggregation now ships its alembic structures all over the world.
(Photo: Danny Damiani/Post-Crescent Media)
Single-container houses, which accept about 320 aboveboard anxiety of space, accept accurate accepted for bodies displaced by a accustomed adversity and for workers in the oil fields of North Dakota. They are stronger than a accepted construction, can be congenital faster and are portable.
“You can aces them up and move them wherever you want,” Larson said.
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The aggregation has several single-container units on affectation at its address at 5523 Candor Way in Grand Chute.
Recycled containers
MODS purchases the abiding animate cargo containers from California. They access abounding with electronics and added articles from China.
Because the United States imports added from China than it exports, there is an balance of containers.
“The nice affair about them is they’re all modular,” Larson said. “This is like a Lego system. You can add and subtract. It’s so different what we can do with these containers.”
The aggregation is designing a 2,400-square-foot home in Mineral Point fabricated from seven 40-foot containers and one 20-foot container. It also has made elaborate offices for businesses.
MODS is advancing for advance afterwards the HGTV alternation affectedness in December and January.
“This will put our aggregation on the map,” Larson said of the series. “We’re the aboriginal one in the United States that’s absolutely accomplishing this.”
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