What is It"
Emerging like a starburst out of the California desert, James Whitaker?s shipping container design will soon be constructed for a film producer and his wife. Nicknamed the “Joshua Tree Residence,” the design consists of a cluster of white freight containers and is expected to be completed in 2018.

What Sparked the Concept"
Whitaker originally proposed a shipping container design for an office space in Germany, but unfortunately, those plans went unrealized. Now, Whitaker?s vision is finally coming to fruition as a home in the California desert ? one that’s being built for a client who commissioned the project after an inspiring trip to the Joshua Tree National Park.

The client in question owns a 90-acre property near the wilderness preserve, which is itself about a three-hour drive from Los Angeles. Upon visiting the park, one of the client’s friends mentioned that a form of upcycled architecture she had seen on the internet would look great among the rocky desert terrain. The image she showed the client was Whitaker?s original design for the German office space ? the one that had never actually been built. The next time the client visited London, they met up with Whitaker, and together they devised the future build of his holiday home. The dwelling will be situated on a sloped site in a gully, which will form over the years thanks to stormwater buildup, and it will stand above the ground on concrete columns.
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