The AU-designed shipping container is delivered to the home of Barbra Meyer in Gulfport, Miss. on March 8, 2006.

The weather-resistant housing unit will provide Meyer temporary shelter. Her home (left) was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Shipping containers like this one are typically 8-feet wide, 40-feet long and 9-feet high. This unit was modified for approximately $2,500.

Meyer, a volunteer with the Area Agency on Aging, is a former special education teacher with a bachelor’s degree in social services.

Meyer relaxes in her new home and visits with D.K. Ruth, director of Auburn University's design/build program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction.

Though there is no formal kitchen, the housing unit has been outfitted with a center for cooking and a refrigerator.

Karla Redditte of WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss., interviews Auburn University architecture student Carie Roddy about the project.

AU professors and architecture and social work students made the special delivery of Meyer's new home.