Cargotecture

Seattle-based firm Team HyBrid is transforming shipping containers into long-term-use health clinics in Sri Lanka.

The Team hopes that after the tsunami crisis, these stations could have another life: as facilities serving the long-term health needs of Sri Lankans.

The container's original side wall swings down to provide an outdoor waiting area for patients who are then interviewed in the front section and treated in the back. At the rear end of the containers are also a kitchenette, a bathroom and storage space for a generator.

The units, which cost about $10,000 each to make, will be outfitted with medical supplies and shiped to Sri Lanka, where they should be up and running by April.

Team HyBrid believes that shipping containers are only a first step toward a truly nomadic architecture. "We hope a piece of ‘cargotecture’ starts as a high-end home in an urban development and then it becomes a cabin," says Humble. "Fifty years later, it could be moved to the developing world."

Via Metropolismag.
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