Folding container house portability, rapid deployment, durability, and flexibility have made them widely used in a variety of applications, including temporary housing, commercial use, and military applications. Furthermore, folding container homes can be combined side-by-side or stacked to create a more expansive space, making them popular for residential, vacation, and office spaces.
Structure and Design Principles
Folding container house utilize hinges, latches, or hydraulic systems to quickly fold and unfold, ensuring a stable structure when unfolded and smooth folding.
- Main Beams and Columns: High-strength galvanized steel is welded or bolted together to create a stable, load-bearing structure.
- Exterior Wall Panels: Typically, painted galvanized steel sandwich panels (such as 50mm thick rock wool sandwich panels) or gypsum board, metal sheeting, or PVC boarding are used.
- Base Frame: Integrated with the frame, constructed from U-shaped steel or channel steel, galvanized or spray-coated with anti-corrosion paint.
- Flooring: Flooring/Glass magnesium board/or other decorative flooring
- Adjustable legs: Fold to support the cabinet and unfold to adjust the levelness to accommodate uneven floors.
- Doors, windows, interior structure, functional areas, electrical systems, water systems, air conditioning holes, etc. are all fully equipped.
Multi-Unit Folding Container House
As the smallest unit, a folding container house can be combined to combine the efficient transportation advantages of folding containers with larger space requirements or more complex building functions, improving space utilization and achieving functional diversity. Common combinations include townhouses and double-deck structures. Wanzhi Group can design and manufacture the structure to meet your application needs.
Townhouse House
Multiple folding container units are tightly connected horizontally to form a long row or enclosed continuous space. These can be used for large-scale construction site camps (with worker dormitories, offices, canteens, and restrooms), post-disaster emergency resettlement communities, modular student dormitories, staff apartments, temporary commercial streets, market stalls, and more.
Core Advantages:
- Ultra-high space efficiency and cost savings
- Extreme transportation and rapid deployment
- Uniformity and standardization
- Flexible expansion
Double-deck House
Folding container units are stacked vertically (usually two layers) to form a small building. The bottom layer requires special reinforcement to withstand the load of the upper layer. It can be used as a temporary urban commercial center, dormitories and offices at land-constrained construction sites, compact hotels or guesthouses in scenic areas, transitional communities requiring high-density resettlement in emergencies, and field research and monitoring stations.
Core Advantages:
- Double land utilization
- Clear functional zoning
- Maintaining transportation advantages
Advantages of Folding Container House
Applications of Folding Container House
As temporary and mobile structures, folding container houses are widely used as affordable or transitional housing options in emergency and disaster relief, commercial and retail, and remote facilities.
- Construction site dormitories, offices, canteens, and restrooms. Project camps in remote areas such as mining, oil, and gas projects.
- Temporary facilities for events, exhibitions, and music festivals.
- Quickly erected temporary housing, command centers, medical clinics, and supply warehouses after disasters.
- Mobile cafes, fast-food restaurants, retail stores, and showrooms.
- Seasonal tourist retreats.
- Border outposts, scientific research stations, and forestry/ranch workstations.
Wanzhi Group offers a variety of container housing solutions, including folding container houses and expandable container houses, to meet diverse application requirements for frequent movement, long-distance transportation, and rapid response. Our individual houses currently range in length from 10 to 40 feet. Please contact us for a free quote.