
What is the purpose of your project? Is it to be affordable housing? Are you looking to create housing for homeless people? Are you trying to make an architectural statement on a high dollar building? Frank Lloyd Wright was a great architect.Let’s start from the most important and work our way down. If you violate some of these, the cost will go through the roof, and we’ve turned down projects that had unrealistic designs where some of these basic principles are ignored by the architect.


I’ve worked on quite a few buildings made from shipping containers, and on a number of projects I’ve seen the budget completely blown out of the water and the projects not get built. There are a few things that you can follow when preparing the initial architectural design that can really lower the cost.
