Keetwonen Student Housing
Keetwonen Student Housing in Amsterdam is a massive 1000-unit project that exemplifies prefab writ large. The complex is really a small town complete with shopping, offices, a sports complex and more.
The Tetris video may be a tongue-in-cheek shot at grim Soviet-era buildings, but the imagery it conjures is one of a rich and vivid future for our built environment. The concept is clear — you can build elaborate and beautiful buildings from simple modules. The future of building, especially sustainable development, is looking toward prefab building and increased density to solve some of our greatest challenges.
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[...] Rescue House are planned and are based on the same footprint, starting at a meager 7000 lbs. Being stackable up to eight high with no added support means low-rise apartment buildings can effectively be raised [...]