Remarkable: Biggest shipping container home project in the world. The project started at the end of 2005 (first 60 homes commissioned in September 2005) and was completed in May 2006 – a construction speed of 150 homes per month. Although this project was initially meant to only stay on this site for 5 years (and to be relocated to a new location – shipping container homes are ideal for that purpose), it is expected that the relocation will be postponed until end of 2018.
Keetwonen turned out to be a huge success and is today among the most popular residence halls/campus in the city. The finish of these modular homes could meet the high building standards in Europe … and that was really new. Living in a shipping container is not really new but Tempohousing took the concept to a new level and built a dedicated production line in China to produce up to 40 shipping container homes per week. Since Amsterdam faced a huge lack of student housing, they took a big step and decided to contract Tempohousing to build a removable container campus for students. Tempohousing has built the world’s first and largest container campus for students! To stay in a converted shipping container, was new for the students and for politicians.
