Prefab Housing Pyramid Puts Students in a (Container) Box

3 thoughts on “Prefab Housing Pyramid Puts Students in a (Container) Box”

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  BrianPepprs June 20, 2010 at 7:20 am

  @The Campus TV: perhaps you could spend less time on pointlessly converting units and more time on thinking how renting works. Each apartment, being 29 square meters, would cost 45 kEUR. If this complex would survive just fifteen years (pretty short), you would need to gain 3 kEUR per apartment per year, or 250 EUR per apartment per month. For ten years: EUR 375 per month. Seeing how some student apartments of 17 square meters in Utrecht can already cost over 250 EUR per month in net rent, I think this is a very viable solution.

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  Hildo Krop February 6, 2010 at 8:16 am

  This isn't an innovation, because containers are used for years as student housing, here in Groningen.

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  The Campus TV February 5, 2010 at 11:55 am

  1 square metre = 10.76 square feet 1 Euro = $ 1.40 on the date of this post 02/05/10 2,900 sq. metres = 31,204 sq.ft 4.5 M Euro = $ 6.3 M Cost = $ 202 per square foot. The whole point of using recycled shipping containers should be to make it a more cost & time effective effective SOLUTION. "green" will not be accepted by the mass market if it continues to be a niche in architecture that does not meet economic viability - which is exactly how the general public perceives the "green" movement. We are in the construction business and have been working on cost effective design incorporating containers so this is not just an empty criticism not grounded in experience. A project like this should cost $ 100/foot including developer/contractor profit, site work etc excluding land.