African Design Magazine March 2015 | Page 68

SHIPPING CONTAINE ARCHITECTURE A luxury home doesn’t always necessarily mean thousands of square footage, towering great rooms and gilded toilets. Take these homes for example: to begin building one of these epic houses, all you need is roughy $2 000. That will buy you a shipping container. What you do with that shipping container… well, that’s completely up to you. Some creative people have found a way to transform this rudimentary ‘room’ with metal siding into luxury housing that blows you away. These homes, as showcased by www.trueactivist.com, are epic. 68 africandesignmagazine.com i