Articles
- 1998-10 A Clean Conversion
- Comfortable Living
- 2006-08 Box Changed Lives
- 2006-06 Containers Into Homes
- 2005-09 Containers Into Housing
- 2006-03 AU Students Covert Containers
- 2004-04 Thinking Outside the Box
- 2006 Building Container House
- 2005 Renewable Energy Systems
- 2005-10 Emergency Housing
- Projects Using Containers
- Amazon - The Box
- 2006-09 Artists Co-op
Articles
You may not have spent a lot of time thinking about shipping containers and their many uses, but we have, and we're not alone. Shipping containers have received some positive attention in the last few years for a variety of reasons. We have assembled several articles from numerous sources which describe how containers are being used to meet people's needs all around the world. Not only are these articles informative, but they very well may give you some creative ideas of your own.
Shipping container uses in South Africa
Comfortable living inside shipping containers (video)
50th anniversary of the shipping container and its many uses today
Architects turn shipping containers into homes
Alabama’s recovery after Katrina – containers as housing on Gulf Coast
Students from Auburn University lend hand modifying containers into temporary housing
“Outside the box” thinkers putting containers to another use
Bob Vila’s article on containers as building alternative
Renewable energy system with container as supply unit’s box
Shipping containers used as emergency shelters
“Inside the box” thinking on containers as habitable structures from around the globe
The Box, a book that digs deep into the history of the shipping container (Amazon)
Artist colony constructed from containers tucked away in Rockies
