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Cargo container housing

by Marshall Brain

It started with this article:

Mobile Urban Architecture: From Portable Housing to Temporary Hotel Rooms

It mentions cargo container housing, which leads to a Google search. That search yields all kinds of stuff, including this:

Slideshow: Home Is Where the Cargo Was

Quik House

Container Bay

This video has a nice overview of the phenomenon:

 

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5 Responses to “Cargo container housing”

G33kGirl says:

How very resourceful. They looks very cool. They should build corporate offices out of these.

The Nomadic Museum called Ashes & Snow was completely made out of shipping cargo boxes, not quite as large as these but it was amazing to see how useful they had made them. Here’s an inside photo of the museum and you can see the wall are freight boxes.
http://www.ashesandsnow.org/en/vision/

zaylama says:

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zaylama says:

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Cargo container housing – The Blogs at HowStuffWorksvery nice great post

kurye tel says:

Cargo container housing – The Blogs at HowStuffWorksthank you for share

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