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During World War II, the ever-imaginative Buckminster Fuller (an early prefab proponent) created living units for U.S. troops out of steel grain silos made by Butler Manufacturing Company. Following in Fullers footsteps, architect and artist Adam Kalkin has seized upon the idea of using leftover steel shipping containers for modern dwellings. Working with Butler Manufacturing Company and interior decorator Albert Hadley, Kalkin is currently designing and building the 99K House, a simple steel home that seeks to redefine affordable prefab industrial chic. Kalkins Dwell Home submission is a riff on this theme, and is similarly created from a basic kit of parts: one 45-by-32-by-28-foot galvanized steel Butler building, two 20-by-8-by- 8.5-foot shipping containers, two 40-by-8-by-8.5-foot shipping containers, and one 20-by-16-foot aluminum-and-glass garage door.

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