Outside the house is cold, so we heat the house. Outside the fridge (house) is hot, so we cool inside fridge.
Is there no option for fridges/freezers to get cold air from outside the house? Or is the overcomplication not worth it?
If you want to save energy buying a coolbox and storing some stuff outside during the winter is probably far easier and cheaper ;)
Large camping fridges are as close as I have seen, but I'm sure someone's thought of one for domestic use.
As for practicality in the kitchen, I can imagine a design where you have multiple medium sized fridge drawers. Once pulled out, you can open their top lid and access the content. This way, you don't have one deep container, but rather, multiple shallower containers. For efficiency, a single compressor can feed all of them.
EDIT: actually I've seen freezer drawers - you just need to dial the cooling down a bit.
Another idea: Vertically long rectangular compartments that can be pulled out individually. Essentially a whole bunch of vertical drawers of different sizes, with meshed walls to allow air to pass through them.
Another silly idea: a horizontally mounted ferris wheel