Friday, June 13, 2014

Houses made from shipping containers.

This piece about recycling shipping containers is okay, but two things are glaringly absent. The word "insulation" is nowhere to be seen in the article nor comments, and they omitted the Clinton Presidential Library.

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8 comments:

edutcher said...

The new newer normal

Chip Ahoy said...

A British reviewer of Clinton library described it as "trailer park chic. How rude! And now that term comes to mind for a lot of architectural things that I see.

Architectural: a word I can spell the first go.

archi + tect +ural \o/

Chip S. said...

JFK library has a sailboat allusion. Nixon's looks like a bunker.

Seems right that Clinton's would be a single-wide.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

For a long time now I've been trying to figure out the difference between "epic" and "awesome" and now it seems we're "beyond" that so there really doesn't seem to be too much hope for me ever catching up.

Damn!

Amartel said...

"Seems right that Clinton's would be a single-wide."

Not even with a push-out!

JRoberts said...

"'Seems right that Clinton's would be a single-wide.'

Not even with a push-out!"

It's Bill Clinton, didn't you mean "push-up"

Seriously, have Bill and Hill lowered themselves to set foot in Arkansas since the library's dedication?

Michael Haz said...

I was a home builder and the photos of other people's creative home always interest me.

The shipping container homes don't seem like homes in the sense that people live in them year around. They seem like second or third homes that are used for vacations and weekends.

And they are seldom built in climates where there is a cold, snowy season, because that are difficult to insulate and heat.

They cost $2000? Meh. That's like looking at a $2000 pile of lumber. It doesn't mean the end product is inexpensive; some of the photos show quite the
opposite.

Still interesting, though.

deborah said...

I'm thinking condensation/mold would be the biggest problem.