Hotel and hostels made from shipping containers are becoming more common. Tomorrow, the Pad, a boutique hotel with hostel-style rooms and a high-end mountain modern design, will open its doors officially in the heart of Silverthorne, Colo. along the banks of the Blue River. The Pad began welcoming guests for a soft opening in late November. As the first newly constructed boutique hostel in the Rocky Mountains, The Pad incorporated 18 upcycled shipping containers into its environmentally friendly construction and design. The Pad is on track to becoming the first Colorado-based lodging company to attain B Corporation certification.
Do a search using “shipping container” on Green Lodging News and it will produce numerous examples of shipping container hotels.
Last April, for example, Green Lodging News reported that successful developer, businessman and visionary Darius Smith had launched ASJ Homes, a new leader in modern shipping container houses. Smith is also introducing a new cryptocurrency called Container Tokens, which will be used to raise funds for a new chain of shipping container boutique micro hotels. Ground is expected to be broken on the first container hotel by 2023.
In June of 2020, Green Lodging News reported on the luxury boutique Geneseo Inn in Paso Robles, Calif. Walter Scott Perry of Ecotech Design was the architect of the eight B&B units that sit eight feet above the vines on Cass Winery’s 145 acres of vineyard. The inn also includes a reception area.
There is no parking lot for visitors to Geneseo Inn. Each B&B sits above covered parking and the surrounding vineyards. This was done to help maintain the idyllic setting amidst the vineyards. The shipping containers sit in clusters around a 60-foot live oak tree. In total, 20 shipping containers were used in conjunction with conventional construction and local building materials. The project was done in collaboration with the fabricator, Crate Modular, and the winery’s co-owners, Steve Cass and Ted Plemons.
It is great to see innovative hotel owners, designers and architects making use of the thousands of unused shipping containers clogging our nation’s ports.
