"A enormous trade deficit with china has left the United States with a glut of shipping containers stacked up so high that neighborhoods near Long Beach harbor experience sundown an hour earlier than the surrounding area. But the news isn’t all bad: these standardized 40′ X 8′ X 8-1/2′ boxes are being repurposed by people all around the world into low cost housing, internet hubs, and even workshops."
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What a brilliant idea. I was reading an article on these shipping containers being repurposed as housing. Inside they honestly looked like normal homes. They even had balconies outside and everything. It is fantastic that these otherwise useless containers can be turned into low cost housing, etc. Hooray!
Shipping containers are substantial, steel, and cheap. They are great for this, for providing really low income housing, or even for the base for art. The small on-site machining company i worked for had a container outside the door for coldstorage. When I left for here, my boss had just purchased a trailor to convert into a mobile machineshop/advertisement to drag on sites for longer/bigger jobs or to use as a satellite office. Also, my friend from high school interned at a studio that was converting a shipping container to a fold-out apartment space, and this project was eventually going to a museum in venice.
Because they are substantial steel, they can be cut up without structural issues, and can be easily welded to or otherwise improved.
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