Water Urbanism
Looking at numerous water bound developments we only see land-like houses that deal with land like regulations and land-like infrastructure. The true potential of water like the improved mobility of a house is never really used. This frustration with the lack of creativity in the new trend of floating houses led to a number of concept and research proposals which on their turn led to invitations for brainstorm sessions and workshops. We were asked to participate in a workshop on the potential of floating gardens, a product that has proven itself since ten years but can’t grow out of its one-off image.
As we know from the palm-tree development in Dubai, not water by itself but the shoreline has the highest value for housing. Therefore we see a huge potential in these floating gardens since they enables us to create high quality waterfronts wherever we want. It inspired us to create a new type of water-urbanism that does not confine itself to the rigidity that we see in current day floating developments.
background image: the heavy infrastructure of the steigereiland project in Amsterdam takes away the idyllic associations of living on water.
concept
team
Sascha Glasl
Tjeerd Haccou
Marthijn Pool
client
www.drijvendetuinen.nl
year
2010
