The new home: Living in a house made out of a shipping container

Joseph Kibera constructs homes from containers

Everybody wants a home. A home is the ultimate goal of a successful life, or at least that’s the corner tradition has boxed us into. And nowadays, fewer people travel back to their rural villages to build homes. Few live in them anyway. Others take mortgages to realise this dream. But how about living in a container? Yes, those shipping containers ferried on trailers can now make homes, and cheaper ones at that.

Joseph Kibera is in the business of constructing such structures, ranging from offices to homes. The mechanical engineering student dropout did numerous short courses in computer aided design, building and construction, as well as welding, and now boasts what could be a booming business in the making.