Interesting article on shipping container housing

[Rob Tucker]

Not my cup of tea but there has long been interest on Punaweb for shipping containers converted to housing.

This ABC News article in interesting and contains a number of leads, links and examples:


Home Sweet Shipping Container: Detroit Housing Project
By Karin Halperin
Nov 23, 2012 6:00am


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/201...g-project/

Some of them are quite attractive. At least one I can easily picture in Puna. The most pertinent quote however was:

"“A shipping container doesn’t want to be a building,” Case explains. “So you have to do quite a bit of gymnastics that cost money.”"