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Yeah. I got fascinated with tiny houses and vertical farms because I liked the potential modularity and transportability, but when you actually look into, you d
by jonathankoren 4y ago
Yeah. I got fascinated with tiny houses and vertical farms because I liked the potential modularity and transportability, but when you actually look into, you don't really need containerization (let alone actually reused shipping containers) at all. The houses, farms, whatever, are rarely transported anywhere. Instead you're left with 12 metal posts, and an aesthetic.
- tonyarkles 4y agoYeah, I did the math at one point on using seacans for a few different projects and at least around here they weren’t at all competitive against stick-built structures. They’re easy to transport multi-modal. That’s what they’ve got going for them. If they didn’t need to be lifted by cranes and stacked, they could be cheaper (structurally weaker), but then they’d be useless for their intended use. I do see them used a fair bit around here for job-site offices though, but that’s again using them roughly for their intended use: put it on an 18-wheeler, work out of it for a few months, and then pick it up and take it to the next place