A New Affordable Housing Prototype
ISO-SRO presents an innovative, high-quality, and low-cost affordable housing solution by repurposing shipping containers. This approach tackles both housing shortages and the global surplus of single-use containers. The design prioritizes livable spaces with abundant natural light and built-in features, complemented by ground-floor community amenities. Prefabrication ensures superior quality control, efficiency, and shortened construction times, while allowing for scalability and adaptability across diverse sites and unit types (20′ and 40′ containers). By providing fully furnished Single Resident Occupancy (SRO) units at approximately $250/SqFt and offering both private and shared amenity options, ISO-SRO aims to deliver long-term affordability and self-sustainable low-cost rents.
ISO-SRO is a high quality, low-cost housing solution born by combining our experience with the economy of prefabricated shipping container architecture and award winning affordable housing.
Using re-purposed shipping containers addresses both the housing crises and sustainably addresses the current large build-up of single use containers in the world’s ports. It is ISO-SRO’s design goal to provide highly livable spaces, with an entire wall of windows, floor to ceiling built-in millwork, a ground floor of community facility and tenant amenity spaces.
The quality control and efficiency in the prefabrication process ensures long unit life-cycles and excellence in design to construction execution. Prefabrication also allows for shortened construction periods; unitization and mechanical connections allows for scalability and adaptability over time.
Scalability and flexibility allow ISO-SRO to adapt to a wide variety of site sizes and conditions. standard 20′ and 40′ containers can be prefabricated within our system and stacked to a variety of heights. This ensures ISO-SRO meets unit type and variety demands.
By prefabricating each Single Resident Occupancy unit, ISO-SRO is able to provide fully built-out living units complete with furniture, fixtures and equipment at roughly $250 USD/SqFt. The ISO-SRO model is based on offering affordable and subsidized rents through its entire project life.
To ensure maximum affordability ISO-SRO offers two standard unit types, one with private, accessible bathrooms and kitchens, and one with shared amenities.
The extreme economy of this construction method will allow a fully self-sustainable model with low-cost rents. Prefabrication also allows for shortened construction periods; unitization and mechanical connections allows for scalability and adaptability over time.
Program: Affordable Housing
Status: Under Development
