Working on an article on simulated sustainability, and I came across this article on Treehugger (link to original article). It talks about a "temporary" classroom built out of shipping containers - all the rage in sustainable design. Cute huh?
Problem? The building is only designed to look like it was made from re-purposed shipping containers. See comparison below.
The designer of the project said: the ConHouse system of small-size housing container units, which takes the housing/office ISO container to the next evolutionary level. As opposed to the other container projects, which mostly feed on the excess of available cargo containers, ConHouse pushes the development of containers manufactured especially for housing and office purposes.
So it is an homage to shipping containers - I suppose in the same way that Monsanto is an homage to sustainable agriculture.
When we replicate sustainability the scale needs to be 1:1.
