Floating City Apps: A Lifeline for Slums
Dutch architecture firm Waterstudio uses shipping containers to build structures that benefit people living in flood-ravaged shantytowns.
This demonstration unit in the Netherlands is outfitted as an education and communications center, with 20 touchscreen workstations.
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Firm: Waterstudio
Location: Rijswijk, Netherlands
Total cost: $28,000
More than 600 million people worldwide live in shantytowns that suffer chronic flooding. Because these settlements are often illegal, entrepreneurs and community groups can’t get the building permits, insurance, and bank loans to open grocery stores, health clinics, and other essential establishments.