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The growth in international trade had led to an unexpected surge in shipments in the past decades, which was expected to grow further in the future. On the other hand, the growth in global shipping industry had led to piling up of waste in the form of rejected and unclaimed shipping containers. In order to solve this problem, HyBrid Architecture, a firm based in Seattle, had come up with the concept of 'Cargotecture'. It involved the conversion of decommissioned intermodal containers into habitable spaces, and was expected to hold the key to the future of sustainable home and play an important part in reinventing 'local' trade by creating vertical farms inside shipping containers to help communities to grow more of their own produce and cut down on the cost of transporting food to the UAE region. At the same time, experts questioned that whether converting container into Cargotecture was a deviation or a resistance from conventional architecture or just an aesthetic facelift to an urban lifestyle? Whether shipping container was an object of green capitalism in the name of sustainability?