In 2002 the student housing foundation “Keetwonen” (Dutch for living in a small room”) was set up by founders Quinten de Gooijer, Mathijs Resink († 2016) and Klaas Jan Feitsma. Keetwonen designed and built a container village with studenthomes (picture above: containerhome # 1000 from the city of Guangzhou in China delivered to the construction site in Amsterdam. This project with the 1000 orange coloured shipping container homes attracted attention all over the world and is until today the biggest shipping container based village. Although dismantled in 2020, all 1000 containerhomes are still in use, relocated to other cities in the Netherlands, in smaller projects. Based on “Keetwonen” the company was renamed into the brand name Tempohousing (2004) and that company has since then designed and built projects in many countries, mostly housing and hotels.
We can say that our team has traveled all over the world to demonstrate our concept and we have been received by so many kind and inspiring people that we are still today fully convinced that the Tempohousing shipping containerhome can contribute in so many places to help communities to build safe and economical homes for everybody. Especially with the dramatic change of climate (floodings), international conflicts and the many refugees, simple and quick homes are more necessary than ever.
The succes of building homes with shipping containers lives on (it is still a great concept) but today most projects are delivered with purpose built steel frame or wood frame homes. Production in China was replaced by production in Europe, therefore the need for transatlantic shipping with standard containers was no longer there. Prefabrication in the housing market and construction industry is no doubt the future when caring about the environment. This way of construction saves so much on emission, reduces use of raw materials and is so much faster and flexible, that is will eventually replace the traditional way of construction entirely.
our mission
Our mission is to build green, economical and simple. Not to beat the competition on pricing but with original, smarter and more economical solutions of a higher quality. If we can help creating a cleaner world while keeping the cost down and build faster, we are all better off.
Tempohousing only supplies to businesses and governments or government related organisations, not to private individuals.