Shipping Containers Homes becoming an affordable Housing Option | LOTUS Containers
From living in caves, huts, clay houses, villas to skyscrapers buildings, man has traveled a long distance. But no one thought that after living by all such luxuries, man will move onto living in a metallic box- a box purposely made for the shipment of cargoes. Yes, a box that was designed 65 years ago to simplify the transportation of goods over long distances was never thought to be used for residential purposes anytime in the future. “But the human mind is all about invention and innovation.” There have been many other innovative ways to use modular shipping container s documented in the last 60 years and shipping container homes is one of those. Since shipping container homes have been around for years, there isn’t an exact date that is marked for its invention. It was 1987 when for the first time, a visionary man Philip C Clark filed for a US patent that was a method of ‘converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitual building’. He was the first one...