How to design container houses for rural homestays?

Designing container houses for rural homestays focuses on balancing three core points: integrating with rural scenery, ensuring living comfort, and highlighting homestay characteristics, while being cost-effective and practical. Here is a 300-word introduction:

Container houses are an excellent choice for rural homestays due to their modular flexibility, fast construction, and low cost. The design should first prioritize integration with the rural environment: avoid destroying the original terrain (hills, farmland, streams), use local materials (wood, stone, bamboo) to cover the container’s industrial exterior, and add sloped tile roofs, wooden window frames, or green plant decorations to blend with traditional rural architecture.

Comfort upgrading is essential to meet tourists’ needs. Solve the container’s inherent flaws by filling interlayers with double insulation materials (rock wool + polyurethane foam) to adapt to rural temperature differences, raising the base 50cm to prevent moisture, and installing double-layer hollow glass with screens for sound insulation and anti-mosquito protection. Equip with independent water tanks, solar water heaters, and septic tanks to adapt to rural water and electricity conditions, and design dry-wet separated washrooms.

Space layout should be flexible and practical: 20ft containers work for couple rooms (bedroom + mini washroom + bay window), while two 20ft containers spliced form family rooms (two bedrooms + living area). Keep interiors warm and simple with wooden floors, wall-mounted storage, and rural decorations (handicrafts, local paintings) to create a cozy atmosphere.

In short, such designs retain the container’s advantages while abandoning its industrial sense, creating unique, comfortable, and eco-friendly rural homestays that fit the pastoral vibe.

References

GB/T 7714:Raymundo V, Mansilla S, Esenarro D, et al. Self-Sustainable Modular Design in Rural Housing and Experiential Tourism in El Callejón de Conchucos, Ancash[J]. Urban Science, 2024, 8(3): 138.

MLA:Raymundo, Vanessa, et al. "Self-Sustainable Modular Design in Rural Housing and Experiential Tourism in El Callejón de Conchucos, Ancash." Urban Science 8.3 (2024): 138.

APA:Raymundo, V., Mansilla, S., Esenarro, D., Vargas, C., Huerta, E., Fernandez, D., & Martinez, P. (2024). Self-Sustainable Modular Design in Rural Housing and Experiential Tourism in El Callejón de Conchucos, Ancash. Urban Science, 8(3), 138.