Monitoring the importance of recycled shipping containers.This research aims to present the uses of recycled shipping containers as a temporary structure and focus on its present challenges facing this method of design and construction through: There are plenty stocks of shipping containers in Egypt's ports which can provide many solutions by recycling it as an approach to solve economic house buildings problems. House buildings ways need to be developed to become much more economical, sustainable to help users to have a better quality of life. The idea of using shipping containers as a modular building unit in design is still foreign to designers and building practitioners in Egypt. The fast growth of population in Egypt had made a great shortage in the quality of economic house buildings, which led to a search for new ways to build economically sustainable houses using recycled shipping containers.