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Floating Home in Amsterdam
11 Jan 2021
Amsterdam Floating Home
Design: i29 architects
Location: Schoonschip, Amsterdam, North-Holland, The Netherlands

Floating Home by i29 Architects is part of Schoonschip, a new floating village of 46 households that aims to create Europe?s most sustainable floating community. Based on an urban plan by Space&Matter, over 100 residents moved into and revitalized a disused canal and established themselves a living on the water.

The location has a strong industrial past but today it is one of the most rapid changing city parts of Amsterdam transforming into a more multi functional living area.
The new floating neighborhood is intended to be an urban ecosystem embedded within the fabric of the city: making full use of ambient energy and water for use and re-use, cycling nutrients and minimizing waste, plus creating space for natural biodiversity.

The site is energy self-sufficient, employs circular building practices and serves as a showcase for sustainable living. A smart jetty connects the 46 floating households with each other and the quay. On the top surface, the jetty is a social connector where people meet. Down below the surface, the jetty is a functional and sustainable connector with all the energy, waste and water lines attached to every household connected together.

Within the smart grid of the village and the given bounda...