COPENHAGEN: Urban Rigger, a housing and architect firm in Denmark, has come up with an eco-friendly way to provide affordable and comfortable accommodations to cash-strapped students living in big cities. Their innovative “container dorms” are made up of modified shipping containers floating on a platform in urban harbors.
For many students, having to save money for rent every month is one of the most stressful aspect of their lives, but for a few hundred lucky youths studying in Copenhagen, things are about to get a lot easier. Urban Rigger hopes to ease the financial burden on students by building ingenious modular container homes that only cost $600 a month. In the Danish capital, that’s practically a steal.
The idea for these container dorms came about when Urban Rigger co-founder Kim Loudrup started looking for an affordable place to stay for his oldest son and realized the rents were obscene. “My oldest son needed a place to live when he was going to university,” he told Fact Co. Design. “When we went online to see the availability for student housing somewhere close to us, it dawned on us that it was a nightmare.” So his company teamed up with Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels to come up with a cheaper alternative.
