Modular Housing
2012-11-25 15:50:49.480372+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
ABC News on Yahoo: Shipping Containers to Become Condos in Detroit. Leaped out at me for two reasons. First, it acknowledges (several times) that the building shell is very little of the cost of the building:
Joel Egan, co-founder of HyBrid Architecturein Seattle, which has built cottages and office buildings from shipping containers for close to a decade and coined the term " cargotecture" to describe this method of construction, warns that although containers can be bought for as little as $2,500, they shouldn't be seen as a low-cost housing solution.
"Ninety-five percent of the cost still remains," he says.
Second, Thanksgiving this year was a potluck down in the south bay, courtesy of Chris Rasch, aka crasch here on Flutterby, and I ended up talking someone part of the Future Living Foundation. I'm not entirely sure what they're all about yet, but I'll be digging in a bit further there.