Phoenix is the First City to Move Humans into Shipping Containers

Well excuse all of us who are not rich enough for your standards asshat...

As long as they are buried underground, I dont see how they could pose any problem at all to the community as far as neatness or apperance is concerned.

It sure beats having to flush rent money down the toilet for the rest of your life... Or living in a housing project (god no).

That is fine with me. I will bury it underground, no one would even know it is a container.

You enjoy your wood house that you have to constantly repair and keep up (I know, I am a carpenter).

Enjoy your high cost of electricity , I will rent the land above my house so that my house will pay for itself, with basically no maintenance for a lifetime.

SuperTherm ceramic coatings can keep the walls within a few degrees of ambient air temperature.

if you think living underground is healthy, you are wrong.

no, you don't, no, you aren't, and no, you won't

why are you so defensive?

good luck with your box in the ground, mole person!

it'll suck when you get trapped dowm there

more vitamin D for me anyway

Insulation question is important. Foam on the outside might work but it doesn't weather without some sort of protective paint.

Do you have a link for that SuperTherm ceramic cover?

Aside from the associated agenda-driven bullshit (and 1k a month!? WTF), there could be some very cool potentials with a dwelling like this.

Imagine a transportation network for people who live in these. Have your house loaded onto specialized cargo-ship and sail around the world.

Interesting.


"Construction crews moved 16 10,000-pound shipping containers into place Tuesday as part of an avant-garde apartment development project in Phoenix.

"Containers on Grand will transform the 16 containers from the Port of Long Beach into eight urban apartments on Grand and 12th avenues near downtown Phoenix.

"Brian Stark, a principal with Scottsdale-based architecture firm StarkJames, is developing the shipping container apartments on a former used car lot.

"He said getting the containers into the place was the biggest challenge. He said construction will start on fashioning the containers into eight 740-square-foot, one-bedroom apartments. Developers are looking at monthly rents in the $1,000 range.

"The project is one of the first shipping container housing developments in the U.S."

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Two 8 by 40s with about 24 foot between; erect pony walls on the inside walls of the containers and place 24 foot span truss rafters on the pony wall with rafter extensions to the outside plus soffit;

Now you have a 24 by 40 clear span between them - lots of space with low cost per square foot.

You can actually just weld them all together into a single structure and then cut out the interior panels for large interior spans - no additional framing needed. Only the frame bears the load, not the walls, so they can be safely removed. You can then cantilever another set on of containers on top of those, giving you a covered entrance in front and a second floor balcony in the back.

creativity, efficiency and aesthetics do not equal a Hollywood mansion asswipe

Enjoy your lifeless box of a home

Insulation question is important. Foam on the outside might work but it doesn't weather without some sort of protective paint.

Do you have a link for that SuperTherm ceramic cover?

Doesn't metal conduct heat? They are gonna FRY

Doesn't metal conduct heat? They are gonna FRY

Here is a list of container home projects for those who are having trouble visualizing how these can be both attractive and affordable.

Not everything is a conspiracy, people...

[link to www.fabprefab.com]

There will be 8 wetbacks living in each one and sharing rent, probably exactly what the city and the developers have in mind.