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And the trend - dubbed "cargotecture" by Seattle architect Joel Egan - is being fueled partly by sustainability but mostly by sassy artistic sensibility.
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One of my favorite newsletters featured some silly cargotecture UNBUILT! project in Salt Lake City.
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I think cargotecture has its merits because it uses recycled materials already available in many places throughout the world.
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Using cargo containers to make habitable structures is a process being refined by the company HyBrid in Seattle, Washington, who coined the term “cargotecture”.
Cargo Shipping Containers are an International Salvage Resource 2008
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Inhabitat is helping me continue my love for cargotecture.
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"It really cuts across all types of thinking and starts your imagination," says Adriance's New Jersey-based architect, Adam Kalkin, whose cargotecture projects include creating mobile museums for UNESCO to use in Africa.
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Reusing old containers not only helps reduce a project's carbon footprint, but the modular nature of cargotecture - drop the containers anywhere with a crane - also reduces construction time too.
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The new cargotecture structure is located in Tukwila, Washington.
Gizmodo Andrew Tarantola 2012
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Couldn’t agree more with you guys – so sick of cargotecture.
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