Rustic Holyoke Cabin is the collaboration of Paul Stankey, co-founder of hiveModular, brother Scott Stankey and their two wives. Two twenty feet shipping containers were purchases at $800 each to create a cabin complete with kitchen, dining room, living room with a wood burning stove, laundry room and two queen beds. The two cabins are connected by a middle section loft and roof made out of "(3) 4 1/2" X 11 1/4" fir beams made up of (3) 2X12's thru bolted and glued" and a glass door entrance. The interiors are furred out and insulated with rigid foam clad with birch ply. The cabin is partially powered by solar power arrays and connected to a rainwater cistern making this building an ecologically sustainable vacation home. The hardest part of this project was placing the containers on site. Flatbed trailers carried the two components to the sight. A system of 15 heavy gauge pipes and rope connected to the trucks was used to roll the containers off the flatbed trailers and onto site. Once the foundation and piers were mixed and poured, the same system was used to place the shipping containers onto the piers, to which they were welded. The only zoning/building limitations were that the cabin had to be situated 35 feet from any property line.

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