Cargo container houses: they're green because they're recycled room sized industrial waste
that can be bolted together and are fire proof, water tight, and easily delivered to your door
on the back of a truck... I don't think that's what this ugly eco home is, but it sure looks a lot
like one. Mikey Sklar is covering cargo containers with papercrete to give them some
insulation, and from my own rough calculations it would cost more in hired labor at nearly
minimum wage to build with papercrete and free or nearly free materials, than it would to
purchase cargo containers. They're littering our ports and if you look hard enough can be
had for around $2,000. Hardwood floor, steel walls, steel roof, and water tight, stackable to
nine high...
This video gives you the basic units:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnZTcjB_iU&mode=related&search=
Here's the theory and the worldwide container glut, and a London development called
"container city" where the architects used 100% recycled materials, or at least that's what the
video claims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65C9OLvmjpI&mode=related&search=
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