self contained...
Imagine shipping containers. Pretty exciting, huh?
Well, I guess folks are making houses out of them now. Go ahead, Google it. Pretty slick. You can take a number of empty shipping containers (we have plenty of empties here thanks to a healthy trade deficit), cut doors and windows, etc., in them, weld them together, finish them out, and voila (or Vila), you have a shiny new house. And it is rather economical, hip, environmentally friendly-ish and nearly indestructible. Can't wait to play with one and see if I can't pull it hoff.
The great thing about it is the irony. We have outsourced everything but our children, packed nearly every postmodern artifact and cultural object in a great continuous container caravan from China. Almost everything you touch during the day came over in a shipping container. Our lives are commercial products, including the 40 plus most of us sell to a company during the week. And now, finally, we can put the decimal point on the great economic equation of life... An eco-friendly economic oikos. What a great Ikea... I mean idea. Pretty sexy if you ask me.
Well, I guess folks are making houses out of them now. Go ahead, Google it. Pretty slick. You can take a number of empty shipping containers (we have plenty of empties here thanks to a healthy trade deficit), cut doors and windows, etc., in them, weld them together, finish them out, and voila (or Vila), you have a shiny new house. And it is rather economical, hip, environmentally friendly-ish and nearly indestructible. Can't wait to play with one and see if I can't pull it hoff.
The great thing about it is the irony. We have outsourced everything but our children, packed nearly every postmodern artifact and cultural object in a great continuous container caravan from China. Almost everything you touch during the day came over in a shipping container. Our lives are commercial products, including the 40 plus most of us sell to a company during the week. And now, finally, we can put the decimal point on the great economic equation of life... An eco-friendly economic oikos. What a great Ikea... I mean idea. Pretty sexy if you ask me.
posted by yonderincarp at 17:52
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Go down to Port Hueneme - purchase a container - have it delivered to some deserted corner of Los Padres National Forest and voila.... A Ted Kaczynski inspired mansion!
It is actually a great example of adaptive reuse, which is an environmentally friendly renovation technique... much better than having containers collect dust on the dock or barnacles at the bottom of the ocean.
Yeah... and they are doing some pretty hip things with them.
http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm
This is not your father's Unabomber cabin. It really makes great ecological and economic sense as long as these things are being made anyway.
dude...you need to get outside today. I mean now. The curse sucks, but you can still hit the hills occasionally...like now. :)
love ya bro.
at least you're not stuck in metro detroit. :)
thanks, yesh! good to see you here. yeah, don't know what i am doing, sitting here looking through a window at the sunlight writing about breast pumps when there are so many good boulders around to climb.
been hitting Kalorama Wall a bit lately. good times.
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