Danish Company Turns Shipping Containers into Affordable Floating Student Apartments
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 […]
Rents in San Francisco Are So Outrageous That Young Professionals Prefer Living in Shipping Containers
Unable to afford ridiculously expensive rental housing in San Francisco, young professionals are trying to find interesting alternative living arrangements. One of them literally involves living in a box – there’s a whole village in Oakland where shipping containers are doubling up as tiny apartments! At ‘Containercopia’, you can rent a 160-square-foot metal container complete with […]