Homes made from shipping containers

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Shipping containers are cheap, plentiful and strong. I always thought the interior dimensions too small, the floors too toxic and the problems of insulating and making them comfortable too challenging, but dozens of architects and shipping container designs have proven me wrong.

What can’t the shipping container do? We know you can live in these fabulous prefab versions of shipping containers; you can shop in them; you can even serve beer out of them. Now, even more recycled fun can be had in Melbourne-based Phooey Architects’ shipping container playground, which revamps four shipping containers and other reclaimed materials into an attractive yet functional activity centre, designed to provide kids living in South Melbourne’s public housing with safe spaces to create art, dance and play.

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