{"id":204374,"date":"2017-10-11T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=204374"},"modified":"2017-10-11T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:33:17","slug":"a-look-inside-joburgs-new-r4900-a-month-container-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/204374\/a-look-inside-joburgs-new-r4900-a-month-container-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"A look inside Joburg’s new R4,900 a month container homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new urban development using upcycled ISO shipping containers has launched in Johannesburg’s Maboneng precinct, bringing affordable housing to the mixed-space area that is often used as the poster-child for recapturing the heart of South Africa’s biggest city.<\/p>\n

The development, called Drivelines Studios, is the latest in a growing trend to repurpose shipping containers for livability. While most of these projects are sold as ‘modular homes’ (with prices starting as low as R120,000), Driveline marks a first, as a multistorey apartment block made up of multiple containers.<\/p>\n

The project was launched in 2014, led by Propertuity and designed by Lot-Ek Architects, and was completed and opened for occupation in September 2017.<\/p>\n

It is a mixed-use residential and retail building developed over an existing single story structure, previously a car repair shop.<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0What it is like to live inside a R200,000 South African container home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new urban development using upcycled ISO shipping containers has launched in Johannesburg’s Maboneng precinct, bringing trendy affordable housing to the city centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204492,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204374\/revisions\/204492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}