Environment: Recycling & Creative Architecture:Shipping Containers
Living in a Shipping Container doesn’t sound like any fun at all until you see these renovated containers.
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Another Big Thinker started me thinking about what could be done with shipping containers to help offset lack of housing.
With the trade imbalance there are a lot of shipping containers with nothing to ship. Architects, designers and artists have come up with some wonderfully surprising and comfortable ideas.
Babelgum offers a two minute film on the containers successful use to build studio apartments by attaching four containers together.
http://www.babelgum.com/4001977/dreamspaces-eco-living-shipping-containers.html