Would you allow DC to live in a shipping container dorm?

[Anonymous]

Sign me up! Sounds cool. My DS would love this.

[Anonymous]

Meh, I wouldn’t want to live there, but I’d leave it up to my adult child to choose.

[Anonymous]

No…not with the rise in natural disasters. A tornado would rip that to shreds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No…not with the rise in natural disasters. A tornado would rip that to shreds

*extreme weather

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the cool micro housing thing to do

My town has two permanent family homes made out of shipping containers.

And my friend was looking into building a vacation home out of them in Costa Rica.

College students don't care what their walls are made of.

[Anonymous]

Nah, considering trailer made for occupancy can have toxins, I would not want to live in a used shipping container made from who knows what and shipped filled with whatever.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/katrina-rita-victims-get-426m-in-toxic-fema-trailer-suit/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes, if it was at a school they wanted to attend and there wasn't a specific reason why not (like it wasn't up to fire code or was inacessible to my kid's disability).

+1 why not? Dorm rooms don't have to be palaces. Just somewhere safe to sleep.

[Anonymous]

So would these topple over when 100 kids squeeze in for a party?

[Anonymous]

They sure don’t want to tell you much about the bathrooms. It appears that each dorm room has its own sink and then each suite (2, 2-person dorm rooms) has a jack-and-jill bathroom in the middle that only contains one toilet, one shower and no sinks.

[Anonymous]

Are the external doors safe?

[Anonymous]

They look nicer than some of the hole-in-the-wall apartments people lived in back in our day!

[Anonymous]

Minisplits (awesome)
Kitchenette (great)
En-suite bathroom (sounds good)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They sure don’t want to tell you much about the bathrooms. It appears that each dorm room has its own sink and then each suite (2, 2-person dorm rooms) has a jack-and-jill bathroom in the middle that only contains one toilet, one shower and no sinks.

That's luxury compared to my dorm in the 90s. A whole floor shared a coed bathroom of about 5 toilets, 3 showers. And of course the toilets were in that assembled gap style with huge gaps.

[Anonymous]

The company making them has been in business for 10 years and usually makes standalone homes.

https://www.customcontainerliving.com/residential/

How will be the housing community be laid out?
Each unit will be two floors tall (see: Maroon Village rendering). Each floor will consist of two suites for a total of four rooms (2 rooms per suite).

There will be a common room that is the size of one, single-story unit. The common room will offer a TV screen, seating, and kitchenette complete with refrigerator, microwave and sink.

Three laundry rooms with a total of 12 washers and 12 dryers will be included. Each laundry room will be the size of one suite. Units will be arranged around a central courtyard with open green space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Minisplits (awesome)
Kitchenette (great)
En-suite bathroom (sounds good)

Yes please. That does not really look too shabby.