The creativity and continued innovation that designers and owner builders show with these types of projects is truly inspirational.

I would however make one small point about this article…

The developers here are quoted as saying that “traditional container houses have not been highly successful because they’re claustrophobic and costly to modify”

Honestly now there have been enough well designed and brilliantly executed container homes built over the past 20 years ( many have been showcased right here ) for even a casual observer of the movement to understand that we are a long way past explaining that a container home is not living in a 20 x 8 ft steel box

Claustrophobic ? – Hardly

If anyone needs a quick review of “sucessful” container home projects check out these http://www.containerhome.info/30-most-influential-container-homes.html

Costly to modify ? Perhaps

But there is nothing to suggest that is “variation” addresses that in any meaningful way – beyond the idea of factory based production and that is something that is true of every container based design.

This is a great idea but at the end of the day its a very innovative and useful solution to a thin band of opportunity not a solution to the challenges holding back wholesale adoption.