Contain Yourself

We all know recycling is critical to the health and future of our planet, but it is also the smartest way to think about building materials for residential and commercial spaces.  Shipping containers, as prefab building elements, are growing in popularity at warp speed, and its easy to understand why. Think of them as indestructible building blocks that can be stacked, cut and configured to create spaces from simple to sublime.  Affordable housing indeed.  The following pics (thanks Buzzfeed) are just a few examples of what can be done when shipping containers intersect with lively imagination.  I'm already imagining my own....

The humble shipping container:

The rest is up to you.