Tangentially via a tweet from @snarky_malarkey, a slide show of shipping container dwellings. My earlier musings on containers are here. The tree house slide show that led me to the containers got me thinking – my Goff/Bavingeresque cable and phone pole hack ought to include a nice big beech or oak at the center. Another thought: not sure how to integrate it, but a waste container based aquaponics rig should fit in somewhere (ground level, obv).
The army does this. My army girrrl lived in a shipping container all last year in the Middle East. Wasn’t fancy. She told me my claustrophobia would be a big problem if we had to trade places.
They are also common as dwellings and little streetside stores in Central Asia- Ulaan Bataar is full of them.