This may seem like a tall order, but I assure you it isn’t.
How do we design with shipping containers to save cost without sacrificing space, function and style? And this is exactly what I would like to talk about here: I think this goes against the notion of why you would use a shipping container in the first place to design a home. The press mostly surrounds nice glossy photos of radical and not so radical modern designs that, from my point of view, are not any different in terms of cost and materials than your typical hyper-modern home at about 250+/sf.
This is a niche in architecture that has been getting a lot of press on sites like treehugger and inhabitat, among others. Over the last couple of months I’ve spent a bit of time thinking about and designing with used shipping containers as building blocks for single family homes.
