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| Project | Urban Rigger |
| Design | Bjarke Ingels Group |
| Containers | 9 |
| Area | 300 m² |
| Year | 2016 |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Description from designers
Urban Rigger is a unique, design protected, patented, floating, flexible, CO2 neutral and mobile property totaling 680 m², which is spread over 300 m² of housing (9 + 3 individual student residence a respectively. 23 m² – 27 m²), a 160 m² common green courtyard, Kayak landing, Bathing platform, BBQ area, as well as 65 m² communal roof terrace. Downstairs below sea level, the 230 m² pontoon (basement), Comprising: 12 storage rooms, technical room and common fully automated laundry.
Designers utilize up-cycled shipping containers to create floating shipping container home.
Shipping container is probably the most optimised infrastructure on the planet. The container system is a uniform system that is used in every continent. Shipping containers are accessible everywhere. The problem arises when shipping container reaches the end of its lifecycle. Depending on global steel prices, shipping containers are either abandoned or melted down. If shipping container is melted down, it will have consumed 8.5 megawatt in its life cycle. So instead of recycling, we are banking on up cycling. In other words, continuing the container’s life cycle in a different way. It costs as little as 450 kilowatts and it does away with the approximately 1,100 tonnes of CO2 required to build a new, traditional home. By revitalizing these old structures we help to maintain a low environmental impact of Urban Riggers.
Sustainable Materials Approach
We want to do our best to preserve our natural capital. The material lifecycle perspective is considered in all our constructions, inside as well as outside. Healthy materials are chosen to create a good indoor climate. Our partners and their technologies are playing a key role in generating heating and cooling, while ensuring internal climate comfort and keeping energy use to a minimum. Instead of using traditional, bulky insulation materials, we are using at aerogel, which was developed for space travel and Aluthermo reflective insulation. It is a form of insulation consisting of thin aluminium foil made from recycled aluminium derived from beer and soda cans, for example.
Social responsibility and Socially responsible graduates
The Urban Rigger floating shipping container home project is primarely developed as student residence. Young people who want to make something of themselves, who have clear ideas about the planet and the future, who want to live close to their friends and their place of education.