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  2. e360.yale.edu

    Koen Olthuis, who in 2003 founded Waterstudio, a Dutch architectural firm focused exclusively on floating buildings, said that the relatively low-tech nature of floating homes is potentially their biggest advantage.The homes he designs are stabilized by poles dug roughly 65 meters into the ground and outfitted with shock-absorbent materials to reduce the feeling of movement from nearby waves.
  3. dutchdocklands.com

    Koen Olthuis, who in 2003 founded Waterstudio, a Dutch architectural firm focused exclusively on floating buildings, says the relatively lo-tech nature of floating homes is potentially their biggest advantage.The homes he designs are stabilised by poles dug roughly 65m (210ft) into the ground and outfitted with shock-absorbent materials to reduce the feeling of movement from nearby waves.
  4. resilientrotterdam.nl

    Blue21, a Dutch tech company focused on floating buildings, is currently working on a proposed series of floating islands in the Baltic Sea. The development could house 50,000 people and connect to a privately funded €15bn ($16.9bn/£12.5bn) underwater rail tunnel to link Helsinki, Finland and Tallin in Estonia.
  5. newyorker.com

    Mar 25, 2024One of more than two hundred floating houses that Waterstudio has completed throughout the Netherlands, it was commissioned, in 2021, by Erick van Mastrigt, a seventy-one-year-old retired Dutch ...
  6. yankodesign.com

    Designed by Dutch architect Marlies Rohmer, Waterbuurt sets the stage as a water-based solution for Holland's modern housing needs. The Netherlands actually means, 'the low-lying country,' indicating the country's close proximity. About. ... The floating homes of Waterbuurt are said to act more like land-based homes and, despite being ...
  7. greenbuildingadvisor.com

    Blue21, a Dutch tech company focused on floating buildings, is currently working on a proposed series of floating islands in the Baltic Sea that would house 50,000 people and connect to a privately funded 15 billion euro underwater rail tunnel that would link Helsinki, Finland and Tallin, Estonia; the project is backed by Finnish investor and ...
  8. dutchreview.com

    Schoonschip. Schoonschip is another floating home neighbourhood in Amsterdam but it is much smaller than IJBurg as it was only built in 2010. The houses were built on land and then transferred to the dock by boat. Sascha Glasl, cofounder of Space&Matter — the architecture firm that designed the project — tells Fast Company: "Cities are growing, and everyone is going into high-rises and ...
  9. thenational.scot

    Environment director Dr Chris Zevenbergen, of the construction company Dura Vermeer, said the cost of building the flood-proof bunkers and bases of the houses was cheaper than building foundations on dry land. Steigerland, a newly developed area of east Amsterdam, has 43 floating homes tied up to four mooring posts. "Life seems like a permanent holiday here," said resident William Blokker ...
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