A crate idea to solve Detroit 住宅 危機 ? a home inside a 変えるd shipping コンテナ

  • First 変えるd shipping コンテナ 存在 建設するd in Detroit factory
  • Will feature living space with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen
  • Hoped it could go some way to helping the 住宅 危機 in the city

By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline

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They may not look like the most spacious, or glamorous, of buildings.?

But these shipping コンテナs have been （ーのために）とっておくd as a novel way to 取り組む the 住宅 危機 in Detroit, Michigan.?

In one of the city's sprawling factories, the first 変えるd shipping コンテナ is 存在 建設するd and it is hoped it might 潜在的に be a model for the 未来.?

The first shipping container converted home is being constructed in a Detroit General Motors factory?

The first shipping コンテナ 変えるd home is 存在 建設するd in a Detroit General モーターs factory?

It is hoped the shipping container idea could take off and be used as a way t o tackle the city's housing crisis

It is hoped the shipping コンテナ idea could take off and be used as a way to 取り組む the city's 住宅 危機

Once the finishing touches have been 適用するd, the コンテナ will be 配達するd to Michigan 都市の Farming 率先's （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Detroit's North End 近隣.?

It will serve as a base for university student 管理人s for the nonprofit group and 農業の 研究 activities.

The 40-foot long コンテナ will feature 320 square feet of living space with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen.?

It is hoped the shipping コンテナ idea could go some way to helping Detroit's 住宅 problems - the city has 概略で 40,000 空いている homes waiting to be 破壊するd.?

Tyson Gersh, from the Michigan 都市の Farming 率先, said: 'It's scalable, 作品 for everyone and it's also not going to 廃虚 the 環境. It's easier to 持続する and can re-目的 存在するing 構成要素s.'

The home is 存在 用意が出来ている inside General モーターs' Hamtramck 議会 工場／植物 in the city, which usually produces the electric Chevrolet Volt and other 乗り物s.?

Mr Gersh and others from the farming group met with the 自動車製造業者 a couple years ago, and （機の）カム up with the idea.?

GM 広報担当者 David Darovitz said: 'I loved the creative idea of taking and reus ing an old shipping コンテナ and giving new life. It can be used as a model for a bigger idea.'

The unusual building is viewed as a way to tackle the deteriorating and disappearing housing in Detroit?

The unusual building is 見解（をとる）d as a way to 取り組む the 悪化するing and disappearing 住宅 in Detroit?

Shipping コンテナs 変えるd in to living or working spaces are ありふれた in some other cities.?

For instance, in Salt Lake City's rundown 倉庫／問屋 地区, a nonprofit group last year 変えるd them into 'micro-小売' spaces.

It was in 2006 that California architect Peter DeMaria designed the first two-story shipping コンテナ home in the US, Redondo Beach Home.?

This in turn 奮起させるd the 創造 of 論理（学）の Homes, a company based on the idea of 変えるing コンテナs in to homes. ???

The container will be used?as a base for university student caretakers and agricultural research activities

The コンテナ will be used?as a base for university student 管理人s and 農業の 研究 activities

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