Architecture Out Of The Box
11 March 2005 - 2:00pm
When trucking company owner Malcolm McLean invented the shipping container in the 1930’s, he probably had no idea that he had also provided the world with a source of inexpensive, rugged, and easily adapted housing.
Most shipping container architecture has coalesced into two ghettoes: refined houses and gallery pieces, or jerry-rigged shelters. The Seattle-based Team HyBrid is working with two NGOs in Sri Lanka on a third option: transforming the containers into well-designed, long-term-use health clinics.
Full Story:
Containing a Health Crisis in Sri Lanka
Source:
MetropolisMag.com, March 11, 2005
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