could you live in a shipping container?

[SandEagle]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/11/home-sweet-shipping-container-detroit-housing-project/

The first U.S. multi-family condo built of used shipping containers is slated to break ground in Detroit early next year.

Strong, durable and portable, shipping containers stack easily and link together like Legos. About 25 million of these 20-by-40 feet multicolored boxes move through U.S. container ports a year, hauling children’s toys, flat-screen TVs, computers, car parts, sneakers and sweaters.

the poor people will be canned like sardines while the rich folks take up all the space. oh noes, its like China, almost. :|

 

[ManBearPig]

I totally could. I love small spaces.

 

[sdifox]

4 of those and you got 3200 sqft

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Seems like a great idea.

 

[sdifox]

Seems like a great idea.

Put an empty row on top as heat insulation :biggrin:

 

[darkxshade]

The space is actually pretty decent for the poor but what do you do about air circulation?

 

[EvilYoda]

Bigger than an apartment in NYC or SF

I totally would as long as I get a few. And I'd use MAGNETS EVERYWHERE!

Speaking of which (kinda)...what would cellular reception be like in one?

 

[SandEagle]

The space is actually pretty decent for the poor but what do you do about air circulation?

that's the whole point. cut off air circulation and kill those poor bastards

 

[SilthDraeth]

4 of those and you got 3200 sqft

Would take 10, unless you are talking about arranging them to form the four outer walls. Still need a roof, and would only be 2240 sqft.

Often have thought about this.

 

[RossMAN]

I still need to visit this Starbucks location:

http://www.starbucks.com/blog/sustainable-store-design-in-action/1158

 

[mmntech]

Well, it's no different then living in a trailer. Think of it as a trailer for hipsters.

 

[sdifox]

Would take 10, unless you are talking about arranging them to form the four outer walls. Still need a roof, and would only be 2240 sqft.

Often have thought about this.

20x40=800
800x4= 3200

Or am I reading that 20x40 wrong?

Just looked up standard container sizes and they are more or less 40x8

 

[OBLAMA2009]

that would make a great second condo for people that have to travel around for business and just need a place to crash

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Put an empty row on top as heat insulation :biggrin:

:awe:
But seriously, I wouldn't mind living in a shipping container.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Calling fluffy baby bunny

 

[BladeVenom]

One of the Tumbleweed houses.

 

[BoomerD]

We used to use them on our barges for office space, lunch rooms, tool and gear storage, etc. With a bit of work, they're perfectly habitable.

 

[bigrash]

No way I could live in that.

 

[RossMAN]

Plumbing?

Heating?

Cooling?

Windows?

 

[rommelrommel]

20x40=800
800x4= 3200

Or am I reading that 20x40 wrong?

Just looked up standard container sizes and they are more or less 40x8

The article is wrong or referring to something odd, containers are not 20 feet wide as they go on trains and trucks. They are 8 feet wide.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Plumbing?

Heating?

Cooling?

Windows?

It is called a metal cutting saw

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

What about insulation?

 

[andylawcc]

in Detroit?

 

[Humpy]

Plumbing?

Heating?

Cooling?

Windows?

Exactly.

It's not a mystery why these things are rarely used to hold people.

It is expensive as hell to take odd sized steel tubes and turn them into something comparable to a typical house. Nearly all existing examples are either basic temporary housing or play things of the rich and misguided.

 

[13Gigatons]

Amazing that they can take some ugly containers and paint them and they don't look half bad. I wonder how loud they are though, seems like they would be noisy.