Ever hear the old carpenter’s axiom “measure twice, cut once”? Did we mention preparation is important? 3 There are “what to do” and “how to do it” articles for container home and non container home applications. ![]() There is no single perfect shipping container home design solution, and the most important thing in any home building project is preparation. Even with modular kit applications, variations due to location and climate, site factors such as grading and slope, and home owner preferences (to name a few factors) create substantial differences between projects. 2 Shipping Containers as Building Components for Home Construction. Although, in raw form, containers are dark windowless boxes (which might place them at odds with some of the tenets of modernist design.) they can be highly customizable modular elements of a larger structure. ![]() These “icons of globalization” are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. NICK SOCRATES CONTAINER HOMES 2012 NICHOLAS SOCRATES Introduction There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures.
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