#homeless

#homeless

California's New Steel Container Apartments Called the Hope on Alvarado Were Designed for the HomelessHope on Alvarado, a housing project for the homeless, may appear like your average brand-new apartment complex — but inside, things actually look different.The building is five stories high, has floor-to-ceiling windows and a steel exterior giving it a modern-industrial touch. For the interior, the units are steel containers (like shipping containers loaded at port docks) that have been converted into micro-apartments. The common spaces have amenities and resources that are provided to the apartment’s formerly homeless residents.

Shipping Containers Turned Into Housing for the HomelessTo combat an upsurge in homelessness, the county of Los Angeles converted a jail site in the city's downtown into a 232-unit housing project.The Hilda L Solis Care First Village, showcased in a recent Dezeen article, is unique in that it's created using repurposed cargo containers that are converted into private apartments for homeless people.Because of the irregular shape of the site, NAC Architecture and builder Bernards teamed up to create a series of single-level structures as well as two multilevel buildings created by stacking steel shipping or cargo containers on top of each other.To make the cargo containers livable, the team cut large windows and insulated the walls and ceilings. Each brightly painted cargo container has two living units of 135 square feet (12.5 square meters) each.Images: Dan Ursitti#shippingcontainers #housing #homeless 