BUILDING WITH BLOCKS
Mar 27, 2020
3 minutes
story by CHRISTINE DEORIO
There’s a rumor floating around in the design universe that building a home out of shipping containers—those massive, corrugated-steel boxes that stack like building blocks on cargo ships and freight-train cars—is an easy and inexpensive alternative to constructing a traditional wood-frame house. Not so, says architect Joe Simmons, principal of BlueSky Studio, who got his first taste of the alternative building method when he helped husband and wife Regan and Libby Foster build a new home, comprising nine 40-foot-long containers, in Chaffee
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