Around 20% of the Dutch office buildings are empty. At the same time there is a continuous shortage of student housing, especially in the West of the Netherlands. For a few years a special expert team for the transformation of office buildings it creating student apartments in unused office buildings.
It turns out that it is profitable to build in simple student housing for a few years. The Dutch also came up with other solutions, like student housing in sea containers and lately a new formula called The Student Hotel.
This year the shortage of student housing in Switzerland is so bad, that some students need to temporarily live in one of the many atomic bunkers in the country. Filming reporter Fritz Muri comes to the Netherlands to have a look at innovation in Dutch student housing.
For this background reportage Featurez gave advice, did research, setup, planning, accompanied filming and did the driving.