Urban Rigger Floating Student Housing

Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe

Completed · Residential · Floating Modular Student Housing · Temperate · 2016

Twelve shipping containers arranged on a triangular pontoon to create nine student apartments floating in Copenhagen harbour. The prototype demonstrated that underused urban waterways can be activated with low-cost modular housing that is relocatable as port land use changes.

Innovation highlights

• Shipping container superstructure on triangular floating pontoon
• Relocatable housing unit deployable across any navigable harbour
• Rooftop solar PV and seawater heat exchange for near-zero energy operation
• Circular inner courtyard protected from harbour wind and weather

Client / Developer

Urban Rigger ApS

Architect

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Engineer

COWI

Type

Floating Modular Student Housing

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