Cité A Docks; Students Dormitory Made from Shipping Containers by Cattani Architects

After seeing this student’s dorm design then I’d to admit that the design of my boarding house is way better than this, but when it comes to the interior there’s nothing like this one. Cité A Docks is a student housing project in France at Le Havre, where this Dorm is designed by Cattani Architects using old unwanted shipping containers and transforms it into such sustainable apartment design that can house 100 new students.

Each will occupy as wide as 24 meters including a bathroom and a kitchen. What you have to note here is each dorm will be equipped with that private bathroom and a kitchen, which is for sure unlike my old dorm. We love this housing design as it’s eco friendly and can be a solution to the containers which are unused and turned into something ingenious like this.

The Architects say: “The metal structure allows a better identification of the different rooms, and enhances them through the external extensions that become terraces and balconies. The sequences of the transverse corridors giving access to the apartments on the façade create a succession of full and empty spaces that gives the structure a more visual transparency.”

I personally like to develop a dorm like this but for sure I need a method of how do they joined all of that together? What if a strong typhoon coming there would that building stand firm? So what do you think?

Cité A Docks by Cattani Architects