Here’s my shipping container anecdote. When I wrote the Time Machine article for Cinefex Magazine I was told by the special effects guy that the way the made the Morlocks pop up out of the ground is the buried shipping containers in which the actors hid, waiting for a spring-loaded asist to the surface,
They are less expensive than I expected.
I like shipping-container homes. They’re a potentially good way for poor people to build their own spaces, with minimal waste of materials.
This is not that.
Yeah, I think if I was building an eccentric house in the desert, I wouldn’t start with steel boxes that conduct the heat/cold of the outside, and limit the interior. (I admit that those light shaft spaces look nice, but how do you shade them from the blazing day?)
If I was in that position, I might look at materials like foamcrete/aircrete.* It should have a high insulation value. A lot of the videos use it as a wood frame/drywall substitute, nice but boring!
After all, you could easily automate turning out quantities of large foamcrete LEGO-like blocks.
Foamcrete is interesting but Lego like blocks are a bit of a no go in CA due to earthquakes.
If you’ve ever seen A Clockwork Orange or Funny Games, you know that isolated mansions are never a good thing.
As with any glassy, contemporary home…where are the curtains?
nice sculpture, lousy architecture
Are the containers that jut upward at weird angles actually used for something beyond fancy skylights?
That’s okay, I’ve got this!
Awesome! Thank you very, very much for a very helpful reply. 
I like the Reddit subreddits for architecture that prohibit renderings and only allow actual real physical structures. Just a suggestion for BoingBoing.
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