架构师提供的文本描述。加芙列拉·卡尔沃和马尔科·佩拉尔塔梦想住在离哥斯达黎加圣何塞20分钟车程的梦幻般的地方，在那里他们可以和马在一起，享受自然景观。他们做出了非常大胆的选择，和我一起探索用不受重视的集装箱建造一个非常便宜的房子的可能性，这样他们就可以自由地生活，过上他们一直梦想的生活。对我来说，为他们提供日出、日落、壮观的景色，以及尝试创造一种舒适和归属感是很重要的。

Text description provided by the architects. Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape. They made the very bold choice of exploring with me the possibility of creating a very inexpensive house made out of disregarded shipping containers that allowed them to be dept free and live the life they always dreamed of. It was important for me to provide them with the sunrise, the sunset, the spectacular views, and overall try and create a feeling of comfort and home.

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两个容器之间的屋顶是由用来制造窗户的金属碎片制成的，它不仅创造了一种内部开放的感觉，而且还提供了一种令人惊讶的交叉通风，足以使空调永远不用打开。

A roof between the two containers, made from the scrap pieces of metal taken to make the windows, not only creates an internal sensation of openness but also provides a cross ventilation which is surprisingly sufficient enough to never have to turn the air conditioning on.

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住房的最后费用(40，000美元)低于为哥斯达黎加穷人提供的社会住房费用。也许这个项目开始暴露出设计作为一种工具在21世纪以极低的预算提供美丽和舒适的重要性，同时利用创造性不仅重新定义这样一个废弃的集装箱废料，而且可能甚至表明有可行的，低成本的，被动的温度控制的选择，以适应非常强烈的热带气候。

The final cost of the house (40,000USD) is lower than the cost of social housing provided for the poor in Costa Rica. Perhaps this project begins to expose the importance of design as a tool to provide beauty and comfort with a very low budget in the 21st century, whilst using creativity to not only redefine a scrap material such a disused shipping container, but perhaps to even show that there are viable, low cost, passive alternatives of temperature control to adapt to a very intense tropical climate.

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这项建议已开始引起人们的极大兴趣，可以成为解决发展中国家处置不受重视的海运集装箱问题的一种替代办法，并开始解决购房者在购买住房时首次遇到的巨大差距。

Already this proposal has began to spark a great deal of interest and could become one alternative to solve the issue of disposing of disregarded shipping containers in developing countries, as well as begin to solve the large gap which first time buyers encounter when purchasing a home.