SteelHaus

10/04/2022

Views of our 2nd floor apt’s. The roofline tapers from 10’ to 18’ as you look towards Michigan Ave. There will be a staircase down the center of the space to separate the units and provide access to the rooftop mezzanine.

Views from inside, of the ❤️

08/16/2022

Honored to be featured in Crain’s Detroit Business!

When Nicole Stopka-Nichols moved to Detroit from Germany seven years ago to marry Chris Nichols, she knew it would be home. "When we moved to the...

06/15/2022

Views of the living room and courtyard of the 3bd 3ba space.

The main living area will rock an open floor plan with 19ft (5.8m) ceilings and 16ft (4.9m) four pane accordion doors opening to a fully private courtyard.

With the walls and roof going up, the dimension of the spaces start to become more apparent.
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03/09/2022

One challenge we had with developing on a small lot was parking for tenants.

Not wanting to lose usable sq. footage we cantilevered the alley containers to retain livable space above and still fit 3 parking spaces below 🚙🚗🏎

03/01/2022

Alot of excitement starting the new year with this new view of the final containers stacked!

Seeing our idea transition from floorplans to real space we can walk through has been beyond exciting!

BUT much still to be done!

01/16/2022

…but how good is this view?

This cut out will be the 8’x8’ balcony of the residential unit. You will get to watch the sunrise and the sunset from here. And if you poke your head around the corner you can even get a glimpse of downtown Detroit.

01/15/2022

Yesterday was a special day for us as we stacked our final three containers!

With the core of the structure complete we will now begin tapping into utilities, pouring the ground level cement floors and constructing the walls.

The coolest part of this phase is being able to visualize the spaces in the real world instead of on the computer!

08/02/2021

We captured our drone’s eye view of the last stacking session…It’s fun to see the plan view layout of the containers with the lot shape in real time instead of on paper finally!

We had to pause build progression while sourcing the remaining 6 containers, however we just wrapped up the search and hope to be back on-site in the coming weeks!

06/21/2021

One of our motivating factors for designing with shipping containers was their plentifulness and cost effectiveness.

However due to Covid, we are actually facing container shortages, which has doubled prices. That in combination with raw building materials tripling, we put our design under the microscope, trying to find ways to reduce cost by redesigning spaces to make everything as efficient as possible.

We have had to find creative solutions to maintain our design and budget, but it’s all for the better!

Never let go of your vision!

05/26/2021

A few shots courtesy of .by.joshua when we got our first view of elevation!

We now have the second level containers welded and centered to the first level.

We will next, be setting the cantilevered containers in the rear then going up our final two stories!

05/07/2021

We hit a huge milestone this week and we’re able to go vertical with Steelhaus!

It’s incredible to start seeing scale in the project with the addition of the second level.
We can now visualize the spaces!

We now need to align the second floor by hand and weld them to the first. Then we will continue stacking the remaining four containers!

05/02/2021

Turns out Harbor Freight floor jacks can partially lift 8,500lb shipping containers...who knew!

We were able to level and square up the first two boxes on the foundation with a little creativity and patience. Now we can go vertical!

We hope to have the crane out to stack 4 more boxes this week 🤞🏼