The specification for choosing building types that are different from the normal standard, is that architecture and intention behind building and environmental design has an impact on the social direction of a people, and it does influence lifestyle and how people interact and engage socially. Thus there is an ultimate influence in terms of the overall purpose of the group living within an architecture of buildings. This becomes even more important of a factor in why we must begin to construct and design our own homes and environments. Consider the removal of the porch, and the ramifications of of what this has caused in neighborhoods.
Container homes are exactly what they sound like; homes made from the steel shipping containers that you see carrying goods everywhere on trains, trucks, and ships. From these giant Lego blocks, people are building homes of all shapes and sizes.