Today, shipping containers are already a synonym for affordable housing and pop-up business. Shipping containers can also be converted to hotels and sports centers. Even saunas and swimming pools are possible. There is a company that is currently developing container bathhouses.
A company named SOAK is collecting capital for eco-friendly bathhouse project. This container complex will be able gain 100% of its power from solar energy. The bathhouse also gets a substantial of its water from nature by harvesting and filtering rainwater. They will also reuse the greywater by directing it to their patio’s garden meadow.
The company wanted to shipping containers because they are inexpensive to occupy, easy to move and quick to retrofit. Shipping containers also offer a durable and good-looking aesthetics that will support their vision. SOAK’s goal is to build a bathhouse for “healthy hedonists” that want make an effort to be healthy but do not want to be dogmatic or ideological about it. What’s more they want make their business sociable and sustainable.
Shipping Containers are the best option for running sustainable pop-up businesses that are low-cost and do not harm the mother nature. In order to support pop-up businesses worldwide, Shanghai Metal Corporation is proud to provide internationally standardize shipping containers that help you to start your business. If you have interest please see our website on containers or just send us an inquiry through this link. Remember that we are also on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Tuomas P. // SMC Editor
Pictures and original articles: Gizmag, SOAK, Kickstarter, A|N Blog
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