Urban Rigger - low-cost housing for students
Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow).
The project named Urban Rigger aims to provide low-cost housing for students in the centre of the Copenhagen, docked in the harbour.
BIG's scheme comprises nine shipping containers stacked and arranged on a floating base, to create 15 studio residences over two levels.
