Shipping container apartment built in Squamish
By HALEY RITCHIE
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NE of Squamish’s newest one-bedroom rentals may have started life as an old shipping container, but reborn with airy open windows and modern style, it’s ready to “steel” the show.
above : The exterior of the container house. Photo: Haley Ritchie
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The structure is the first of its kind built in Squamish, billed as “modern, beautiful, modular” by company Honomobo, which specializes in prefabricated homes, made of shipping containers. “They are made to weather abuse and they’re meant to be moved, which is an advantage in itself,” said Devon Siebenga, cofounder of the Edmonton-based company. “The container is built from corten steel, which we build bridges out of. Its nature is to
protect itself from corrosion, it’s a long-lasting product, it’s a modular product. Combine that with design and housing and it really fits.” Honomobo has installed houses across western Canada and the United States, but the pre-designed one-bedroom on Meadow Avenue is a new concept in Squamish. The finished structure bears little resemblance to endless rugged and colourful boxes stacked on top of barges seen in the Vancouver Harbour.
