The house
The Container House
A house built from four shipping containers — the idea, the building, and the life inside it.
The idea
Inspired by the view from his parents' home overlooking the Brooklyn shipyard — a landscape of containers stacked like a city — Ilya imagined a single house could be built from them too.
Building it
With no prior experience, he taught himself SketchUp and spent a year planning the house — then ten months building it by hand, together with Denis Feigin and a few workers. Four containers became a two-storey home above a concrete basement: a space for music, art and gathering. Every detail was crafted or restored by hand, and tens of thousands of visitors came to hear the story, with live music and a good meal.