SeaBox Village would be an exercise in high-tech ‘adaptive reuse’ that would be specifically intended to be duplicated in an on-water form at a later time, the community serving as a proving-ground for the necessary construction methods. SeaBox Village would be based entirely on the use of recycled ISO marine containers to create a conjoined community complex up to several stories high. The architectural potential of shipping containers has become an obsession for many architects and tinkerers around the world. Long used as makeshift shelter for the poor in much of the world owing to their ubiquity and low cost, in the hands of clever designers containers have also been used to create some of the most elaborate luxury homes –albeit with a distinctly industrial aesthetic. Between these extr