Utilizing "retired" cargo containers as apartment building blocks.

[pinto]

Saw an interesting piece on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" about a project in London that bought up land/sea cargo containers to build housing units. The show looked a little dated, but I thought it was an innovative stab at recycling/reusing available materials for basic infrastructure needs.

The end products were studio apartments with small balconies in the dock section on the Thames. Yeah, they looked like something out of a James Bond/Twiggy/London mod movement film...that part's got to be fixable though.

This has probably been mentioned here before, but I thought it was worth another run up.

[ucmike]

1. saw that too. thought they were cool

i worked at newark airport, there is a shipping facility with cargo containers stacked 80' high. i always thought they could easily be converted to housing with a little welding and cutting.

i once worked with a guy who grew up in the texas panhandle. his parents raised 8 kids in 2 boxcars they towed to a property and pushed into an "L" shape. cut in some doors and windows and raised a family.

[wakeme2008]

3. Back in the 60s ... When I was in high school

when to conn. with a friend of mine to his Uncle's farm. His Uncle and wife were artists and had made a home out of one of two barns. Neat house in half the barn, and the Uncle had his wood art studio in upper two thirds of the other half and Aunt had her cermics studio in the below her husbands... The second barn was being made into a metal working studio...

Neat what people can do.

[Richard D]

2. It's being done now.

http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm

http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_825.php

[pinto]

4. Thanks for the links.

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