Faced with a severe student housing shortage in Amsterdam, Tempo Housing thought outside the box by using boxes – building dormitories from shipping containers.
With corrugated metal frames on the outside, it has the outside look of a container straight off a ship, yet Tempo Housing designs containers that provide 30 square meters of heated living space complete with showers, toilets, kitchenettes, windows and balconies.
“People have a hard time to believe from the outside that that it’s a regular home from the inside,” Tempo Housing founder and general manager Quinten De Gooijer said.
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