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    Containment Strategy

    Oct 30, 2018 3 minutes
    TEXT BY Ray Mark Rinaldi
    PHOTOS BY | @BENJAMINRAS Benjamin Rasmussen

    Making a house out of shipping containers sounds easy enough: Just snap up a few neglected boxes from a local junk dealer, rack ’em and stack ’em, and create a bit of old-school prefab magic.

    But recycling the detritus of global shipping has its complications. Like how to turn corrugated steel boxes that measure an awkward eight feet wide and 40 feet long into

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