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• jlam - Jul 10 2009 | house, architecture, multimodal container, photos, design

  Years of giant trade deficits in consumer goods have left North America awash in multimodal shipping containers. Some have designed houses from them. One episode of This Old House featured a builder in Florida assembling four to six of them into a moderately-sized house.

  Compared to other materials, containers come cheap, but the trend has yet to catch. I imagine living in a 40-foot standard unit might feel like living in a single-wide mobile home, and zoning would relegate it to mobile home parks.

  Meanwhile, they appear as design exercises, along with many other unusual houses.