Touring the Redondo Beach container house

In DeMaria’s hybrid design for the Redondo Beach House, conventional stick-frame construction combines with eight repurposed steel shipping containers to form the two-story home.

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“For me as an architect, the challenge has always been how to give my clients the highest level of design while still keeping the projects on budget,” say Peter DeMaria, one of the country’s first architects to incorporate steel cargo containers into residential designs. His Redondo Beach container house, located in Southern California, won the American Institute of Architecture’s Excellence in Design Innovation Award in 2007.
“For me as an architect, the challenge has always been how to give my clients the highest level of design while still keeping the projects on budget,” say Peter DeMaria, one of the country’s first architects to incorporate steel cargo containers into residential designs. His Redondo Beach container house, located in Southern California, won the American Institute of Architecture’s Excellence in Design Innovation Award in 2007.

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Tue, 31 Jul, 2012 4:10 PM EDT

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