We refine used sea freight containers into living spaces using leading-edge technology
Our multi-patented process enables a mechanically inserted, monolithic, and thus thermal bridge-free high-performance insulation. The processing of used sea freight containers into housing modules is carried out in a serial industrial process with precision and consistently high quality. Increasingly, we are gaining space and can deliver high quantities in a short time.
Read more: Innovations“Upcycling on a large scale: sea freight containers become housing modules.”
“… There are no stylistic limits to the modules within the certain framework of their original morphology …”
DETAIL – Magazine for architecture and construction detail 10/18
News & Stories
Boardinghouse in Wertheim
Temporary living in 21 container modules from Containerwerk
> Go to article
Containerwerk in the Containeratlas
A great honor! We are represented in the new container atlas
> Go to articleTopics
Multiple awards!






For more flexibility and diversity in urban development
Our container modules create new, flexible, and sustainable opportunities for more living space and are committed to architectural and urban diversity.
Containerwerk Managing Director Ivan Mallinowski interviewed
„Resource-saving methods of construction, recycling or upcycling, as practiced by Containerwerk, are forward-looking techniques and principles.“
Prof. Han Slawik, pioneer of container architecture in Europe