Design Week

YMCA launches container project to combat homelessness

The organisation is working with Robert Kilgour Architects and Midlands-based consultancy Essence Design to develop the mYPad initiative. Robert Kilgour is working on interior design for the ...
ITV

YMCA fits out shipping containers to provide new flats

The YMCA has turned to shipping containers as a novel solution to housing young people who are struggling to pay London's exorbitant rental prices. Two of 30 containers that will house young people at ...
The Argus

Forest YMCA and Waltham Forest Council considering using shipping containers for homes

A charity is considering using converted shipping containers to house homeless youths who cannot afford the deposit on rented accommodation. Forest YMCA may use up to ten of the so-called mYPads at ...
This is Local London

Shipping containers have been converted into 'studio units' for young working people to rent from the YMCA in Walthamstow

Twenty shipping containers have been turned into small living studios in an innovative bid to help young renters. Waltham Forest YMCA transformed the first ten for people living with the charity in ...
Design Week

YMCA launches container project to combat homelessness

The organisation is working with Robert Kilgour Architects and Midlands-based consultancy Essence Design to develop the mYPad initiative. Robert Kilgour is working on interior design for the ...