Dutch construction company Heijmans has developed a prefabricated starter home for young professionals called Heijmans ONE. The home is designed to not only fill the void of lacking rental property but also to fill empty lots in city centres. Inadvertently, killing two birds with one stone.
It’s a beautiful, compact and extremely energy-efficient home (thanks to the solid wooden skeleton, the all-electric use and self-generation of energy). It sports all the necessary facilities, such as a kitchen, bathroom, large double volume living room, separate bedroom as well as its own front door and outside patio, making it perfect for its target demographic of single, upwardly mobile young professionals within the 25 – 35 age bracket.
Being a prefabricated home, it can be installed in under 24 hours temporarily in empty urban areas, which one must agree, is a great advantage for a fully detached structure with a planned price point of about € 700 (about N160,000) per month. (the same amount would get you a cramped attic space somewhere in the city centre of Amsterdam).
