Moos, a startup founded in Amsterdam in 2020, builds modular, demountable homes from sustainable materials like cross-laminated timber to address shortages in social and middle-income rentals. Employing 61 people, it uses a project-independent production system for continuous manufacturing, creating units from 22 to 110 square meters suitable for up to eight-story galleries or 18-story towers, with a Building Circularity Index of 73 out of 80.
The company's first project, Moos Euterpe in Maasland near Rotterdam, delivered 30 units across two facing buildings in late 2023, totaling 2,000 square meters gross and centered on a shared garden for family-sized homes. The second, Moos Appelweg in Amsterdam, added 63 units shortly after. Around 500 more homes are in development through partnerships like "Our Family," which coordinates design, production, installation, and material passports tracking origins and reuse value. Moos also collaborates on initiatives such as NH Bouwstroom to boost housing efficiency.
Targeting housing corporations and investors, Moos decouples building from sites to cut timelines and emissions, though its scale remains modest amid the Netherlands' broader crisis. Other Amsterdam "Moos" entities—a bar in Spaarndammerbuurt and unrelated ventures—bear no connection.