Why Should I Contain Myself?

In anticipation of being bought out of my urban townhouse, I wanted to consider creating a new dwelling.  Considering my state in life, my priorities are to design something frugally and encourages downsizing of "junk" while allowing for aging in place and that will be low maintenance.

Tiny Houses certainly force people to live simply, often for the trade off of being mobile. I do not envisage that being conducive to our life style, Yet I believe that some of the space saving techniques could be quite useful.

Container homes in their simplest form are akin to a Tiny House without the ready mobility.  There are some designs which fuse together containers.  This is especially useful to circumvent the narrow 7.5" interior width of most cargo containers.  As far as I have seen, when a project fuses together containers, it becomes significantly more costly.  A 640 sf house would be too small per se.  A 1280 sf plan would be more than enough but for the engineering involved, it might rival the cost of a regular stick home.

My initial notion of "Cargotecture" was inspired by a DIY TV episode of Contain-able  of a modern farmhouse. 

Jon and Kristen Meier's Contain-able Modern Farmhouse

Jon and Kristen Meier's design had a great exterior aesthetic, good flow of space and the covered breezeway gave quite a bit of living space for a cargo container based abode.    Schematically, it looks like a fat "H" using parallel containers connected by an "A" frame.  

For us, this "Fat H" concept seems like the most practical and economical scheme for building a forever house to walk into the sunset of life.