This isn't so much exactly about information architecture except conceptually as a new industry one of the quotes reminded me of the IA field several years ago.

'Jennifer Kretschmer, an architect based in San Jose, who is designing her first shipping-container home for a client in Healdsburg, said that she hopes the designers who are interested in this form can come together and develop standards. "We are all in an experimental field," she said, "with each of us inventing the wheel on our own. It would be good to share our failures and successes."'

Innovative architects turne dused shipping containers into homes Carol Lloyd, SF Gate