In recent years, refurbished shipping containers have become a creative way of transforming raw space into "everything from pop-up shops to co-working spaces and even teetering towers of student housing." With the surging need for hospital units, Carlo Retti, an Italian architect based in Boston, might have created the most useful reincarnation of that humble steel box a portable, two-bed intensive care unit at a fraction of the cost of pre-fabricated hospitals and with a higher level of containment than pop-up conventional center hospitals, The Guardian reports. "The designs are being made available as open-source plans online, with the first prototype slated to be deployed at a hospital in Milan, Italy, one of the pandemic epicenters.

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