Uploaded on 2016-11-15 by Sociocognitive

Photo from: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/developer-unveils-plans-for-shipping-container-apartments-in-the-cedars-751246 Shipping container houses ------------------------- Shipping containers are used for international/intermodal freight. Discarded containers are often retrieved by poor people around the world to be used as caravan-like houses. Container house slum in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam): http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/developer-unveils-plans-for-shipping-container-apartments-in-the-cedars-751246 Interestingly, the solidity of the container structure improves the quality of living in the slum. Container houses are also a trend in modern functional architecture. https://www.containerhomeplans.org