Floating Home, Amsterdam Property

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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 Amsterdam

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.

Floating Home Amsterdam

Floating Home Amsterdam

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.

Floating Home Amsterdam

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.

Floating Home Amsterdam

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.

Floating Home Amsterdam

Within the smart grid of the village and the given boundaries of every water plot, every single home is able to be unique in architecture and interior design. All inhabitants were allowed to choose their own preferred architect. Our client challenged us to design a home which would maximize the space within the volume boundaries of the plot and still have a typical yet surprising house shape.

Floating Home Amsterdam

The floating volume has a pitched roof, but the coping of the roof is turned diagonal in the floor plan which gives an optimization in usable space on the inside and an outspoken architectural design on the outside.

Floating Home Amsterdam

To i29, architecture and interior designs are always intertwined and connected on each level to make a clear and unified experience. The floating home exterior design is the result of a space extensional study within the interior and vice versa.

Floating Home Amsterdam

All areas are in open connection to the atrium which comprises three floors. The layout is extended with a split level connection to a loggia terrace just above water level. The interior and facade play with the views on the outside. Views appear and disappear while moving through the home.

Floating Home Amsterdam

The basement offers direct water level views, the living room only gives a view on the surroundings when sitting in the lounge and the kitchen on the top floor has directed views towards the south and north side of the canal. On the top floor, a cut out of the roof enables a loggia and open terrace with a view towards the harbor in the west.

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With simple yet smart interventions this project is realized on a tight budget but still has a unified architecture and interior design that leaves a strong impression. At the same time the floating home is extremely energy efficient, eco-friendly, and built with a small footprint.

Floating Home Amsterdam

Sustainability goes even to a higher level with the implementation in the smart grid of the floating village. Energy can be even more valuable when you share it.

Floating Home Amsterdam

Floating Home Amsterdam

Floating Home in Amsterdam, NL – Building Information

Client: private
Design: i29 architects
Object: Schoonschip Kavel 03
Urban plan: Space & Matter
Sustainability advice: Metabolic
Management: Gemeente Amsterdam
Contractor: Hagoort bouw
Interior builder: Simon Sintenie

Floating Home Amsterdam

Photos: i29 / Ewout Huibers

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Valley Towers Amsterdam CBD Zuidas images / information received 281020

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe

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