Shipping container architecture

Shipping Container Architecture is the idea of using steel shipping containers as the basis for housing and other functional buildings for people, either as temporary housing or permanent, and either as a main building or as a cabin or workshop. Shipping containers are in many ways an ideal building material. Not surprisingly, many such structures have already been constructed, and their uses, sizes, locations and appearances vary widely. They have been used as emergency shelter, school buildings, urban homes, apartment and office buildings, artists' workshops, a store, large houses, moveable exhibition spaces on rails, and even for abstract art.

For more information, please go to the site devoted to this subject: The Shipping Container Architecture Information Repository.