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A reimagined take on student housing, Urban Rigger’s initiative aims to build low-cost modular housing in Copenhagen’s urban harbors. The cost? Roughly $600 per month.

Monthly rent works out at the equivalent of US$600 and BIG and Urban Rigger (the student housing startup that commissioned the project) aim to refine the prototype and export it to other cities.

The Urban Rigger project in a former industrial port in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, might be an inspiration. ... planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of ...

Urban Rigger has already begun plans to build their next 24-unit project in Sweden and is fielding requests from North America. But the success of the startup will depend on the willingness of ...

Laurent de Carniere/Urban Rigger. Students have private bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens, with shared living space that includes a kayak landing, a bathing platform, barbecue area, and communal ...

Bjarke Ingels, the renowned Danish architect whose firm has a 10% stake in Urban Riggers designed the units. The first unit (consisting of 12 dorm rooms) opened to the public on September 21. Let ...

He also visited Urban Rigger, a Bjarke Ingels Group-designed “micro district” of floating buildings in Copenhagen’s harbor that are used as student accommodation.

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In major cities around the world, student housing is getting more expensive–and less available. One fix: ditch the traditional house altogether. Danish startup Urban Rigger teamed up with ...

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