Can you convert a tractor trailer into a house?

A number of people have successfully converted tractor trailers into houses. Two architects in Mexico used a tractor trailer to create a habitable addition to a more conventional home.

The architects, Alejandro D'Acosta and Claudia Turrent, hired a contractor to use a backhoe, ropes and a pulley to turn the trailer on its end. Workers eventually attached the trailer to an existing one-room cinder block building.

After uprighting the trailer, workers placed it on a concrete foundation and welded it into place. It contains a bathroom on the main floor with two bedrooms stacked vertically above. The two bedrooms are reached by ladders.