سبل إعادة استخدام حاويات الشحن كإحدى طرق تصميم منشآت معمارية تجارية ضمن مفهوم االستدامة Ways to reuse shipping containers as one of the ways of designing commercial architectural installations within the concept of sustainability

Today, with successive crises on the global economic landscape, large numbers of untapped 
cargo shipping containers are accumulating in ports around the world and recycling them 
requires complex industrial processes that not only cost money but consume a lot of energy. 
And hence the idea of reusing it for other purposes, and with a clear interest in the principles 
of sustainability in architecture has increased interest in reusing shipping containers to form 
different architectural spaces as one of the eco-friendly architecture images Based on the 
foregoing, the research aims to study the re-use of shipping containers in architecture as one of 
the innovative ways of redesigning internal spaces capable of serving more than one function 
and containing many business activities in particular from their use of a small business to a 
wider scale including a large commercial enterprise and their relationship to architecture 
sustainability, The study assumes that the study of reusing shipping containers as one of the 
key elements of architecture will contribute significantly to solving some environmental 
problems based on their reliance on sustainability standards and objectives. and can be used to 
implement projects with a limited or large business activity, To achieve this, the study relies 
on two methodologies: first, the extractive approach to shed light on the theoretical 
backgrounds that dealt with both standard shipping containers in terms of definition and 
description of container body, manufacturing materials, loads, assembly units and container transportation containers, their advantages and disadvantages, what container architecture 
means and their areas of use in the building in general, and then address the initial stages of the 
construction of container buildings with all their own details. Second, the analytical descriptive 
approach is to analyze models of the reuse of shipping containers in commercial enterprises 
globally and analyze models of their local reuse in the field of business enterprises, compare
them together to see the most important methods used in this field and how to utilize them in 
the field of container architecture in Egypt to reach the research objective and then draw 
conclusions and recommendations.