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Not to shabby an idea. Reusable living quarters in the shape / form of metal shipping containers. In an attempt to create affordable and reusable living quarters, Container Bay lists a collection of viable options for the financially challenging (or environmentally aware).

There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures. These “icons of globalization” are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. 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.

Move over Cribs, the new house on the blog is not ergh… a house. It’s a metal shipping container straight off the docks of San Fran complete with identifiable branding and markings. Tell me you wouldn’t consider living in a metal box if the money you saved could go towards a pimped out electronics center inside?

Think of the possibilities. Modular living arrangements easily configured both vertically and horizontally creating mini-cluster communities. Save the environment, reuse, and live in a box!