It may be time to go out and buy a shipping container for conversion into a dwelling or office. Something I've thought would be a nice project, if I had the time, and not terribly expensive. They are used all over South Africa as instant shops and offices, most commonly in informal settlements and construction sites, but what about taking your house with you any time you moved? Even across the ocean, since the containers are made for shipping.
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Interesting you mention this, we had the same conversation in our household yesterday after seeing the photo of containers stacked up in Hong Kong on the Wall Street Journal.
http://s.wsj.net/media/0218pod13.jpg
Cheers,
Mike
Posted by: urbanworkbench | 23 February 2009 at 04:53 AM
That's something different! Interesting idea...
Posted by: Marc | 23 February 2009 at 05:26 AM
I wonder if you could convert one of these into an industrial scale worm farm.
Posted by: Duncan Drennan | 23 February 2009 at 12:07 PM
Worm farming is one idea. An earlier blog post mentions vertical farming, which could be done on a more modest scale in stacked containers. But unless you are growing mushrooms, lighting is a challenge.
Posted by: Rory | 23 February 2009 at 11:35 PM