Colourful student digs

The LivinnX student residence in the university city of Krakow in Poland proves that a student residence can also do this: modern design, resource-saving technologies and space for the community.

The path to a sweet student life is often a rough one. The college diploma is only the first hurdle. A place to live, affordable, centrally located, accessible by public transport, in a nice neighborhood, is another. Finding such a place in densely populated, high-priced metropolises is like running the gauntlet.

This is also the case in Krakow. In the last 20 years, the city in the south of Poland has developed into an Eastern European centre for new technologies and life sciences. With its eleven universities, the former royal city is a magnet for students not only from Poland. About 51 000 young people study here. Affordable housing is correspondingly rare.

Over 700 students now find this in the history-steeped quarter, on Romanowicz Street. In the immediate vicinity is a special museum - the former enamelware factory of Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of around 1200 Jewish forced labourers during the Second World War.

The architecture studio Make It with IMB Asymetria completely rebuilt the former seven-storey industrial building. The new student dormitory inside is much more than a dormitory. Colourful, spacious and equipped with numerous lounges, LivinnX's interior design creates space for students to live together, for cosy barbecue evenings and discussion nights on the roof terrace, for cooking together in communal kitchens, for studying together in the integrated library. A weight room as well as a spa facility with sauna and jacuzzi round off the leisure facilities of this student residence. In short: LivinnX translates the “student digs“ into today's world.