Pretty cool roundup of posts and websites devoted to converting the ubiquitous shipping container into low-cost shelters, apartments and/or houses, including videos from Bob Vila! The student housing links showcase some very well-executed examples of container architecture.
I like the Australian rainforest shelter myself. Hey, it survived a Class 5 typhoon!
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that is cool. I have been wondering about those kind of shelters surviving Atlantic hurricanes.
Ha!
My office in the desert was five of those. We converted it over. Stole/borrowed AC units, already had electrical and everything. Got great pictures. Saved my ass in fact when an investigation came down in the “destruction of property.”
Did I mention the second story wrap around balcony? Nice view of the mountains?
Any possibility of posting those pictures please? Mountain views are a fetish of mine, especially those of faraway lands….
I have a plan for a future dream house involving construction using cargo containers. Of course, first I need land, then money, then….
There’s a company that makes indoor shooting lanes using these too.
I heard there’s one really big issue with these… some country (Australia??) has such strong regulations against the possibility of bugs getting into their precious land that they require heavy insecticide coatings in the containers. Since it’s easier/cheaper to just coat all the containers and then not worry about which ones are going where, pretty much every one of them is heavily coated with some pretty nasty chemicals.
I’m sure there are ways to remove/cover it without having to worry about it leaching through, but it is an additional expense as well as potential health hazard.
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