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ONE WORLD Magazine

Sunday, June 26th, 2016

EcobootArtistImpr170x150Journalist Hidde Jansen writes: Forget Mars, deserts or kilometer high apartment buildings, in the future we live at sea. If you ask the Dutch pioneers Frits Schoute and Rutger de Graaf, floating cities will be reality within twenty years. Read the full article (in Dutch) at www.oneworld.nl/water/klimaat-toekomst/kunnen-we-wonen-op-zee Click on “read more” for the English translation (more…)

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Floating City Project

Thursday, February 13th, 2014

Seastead If We Build, Will You Come?A fresh start on a floating city could be just a few years away, according to the Seasteading Institute. They have been conducting research into the potential for permanent, innovative communities – floating at sea. Being more decisive and financially strong than Ecoboat, they are able to apply this foundation of knowledge and their network towards

  • An actual design
  • Additional efforts to determine specific needs and desires of potential customers
  • Selecting a practical location for what could become the world’s first city at sea.

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TEDxDelft talk on (partly) floating cities

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

TEDxDelft Rutger de Graaf on Floating Houses“We are running out of land, so let’s build on the water”. This was the title of a well presented talk on October 4th 2013 at TEDxDelft. Let Rutger de Graaf convince you by some impressive numbers. He presents a big solution (in line with the Ecoboot philosophy) to a big problem. Click here to go to his presentation.

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Thailand Water Architecture Workshop

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

Thai Mini Raft HouseThailand has a long history with living in flood plains, and has many vernacular solutions to protect against flooding. Yet, in recent years Thailand got devastated by floods. This workshop will analyze the traditional measures against flooding, such as floating fishermen villages and stilt homes. Gained insights will be used as a case study for a small village in central Thailand. On urban scale we will study how water communities can connect to the land, on building scale we will analyze floating buildings and on detail scale we’ll try to make a small raft like floating body.
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Study on Floating Buildings

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Floating Moque LogoMany spectacular plans do exist for floating buildings. Prof. Chang-Ho Moon of the Kunsan National University in Korea made it more concrete by studying 3 realized and 3 planned projects in terms of sustainability. Below you can download his study which appeared in the Journal of Navigation and Port Research, International Edition. (more…)

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Adaptive Urban Development

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Adaptive Urban Development LogoTo avoid severe shortages in 2050, existing metropolises must transform into flood proof ecocities. Moreover parts of these cities + food production must be located on the water. These solutions were presented by Ruger de Graaf in his Inaugural Lecture on the Blue Revolution. Below (following read more) you will find a summary + a link to his book presented after this lecture. (more…)

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Exhibition Floating Architecture

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Entrance Expo Floating ArchitectureThe Exhibition Floating Architecture can now be seen in the Floating Pavilion in the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam. The exhibition moved from the Coolsingel to an appropriate floating building! Fitting very well in the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, plans for floating houses and floating buildings, like schools and greenhouses, are shown. (more…)

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Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Cover Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands Architecture Institute 170×150Subtitle: Architecture and Urbanism on the water. A book by Anne Loes Nillesen and Jeroen Singelenberg that outlines the trends and experiments in the realm of architecture on and in close proximity to water.
It is impossible to imagine our spatial and urban planning without water, and this book reveals what is happening in the realm of amphibious housing and how that is progressing. As an encore, the book presents an initial proposal for how this might be achieved more efficiently, more astutely and on a larger scale in the future. (more…)

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Water architecture interview by 2010LAB.tv

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Floating Pavilion RotterdamRotterdam is an ambitious city, especially where it concerns architecture and sustainability. The European cultural capital RUHR.2010 pays tribute to this ambition via 2010LAB.tv by interviewing water architect Bart van Bueren and sustainability alderman Alexandra van Huffelen. Follow the link www.2010lab.tv/en/video/waterworld-dive-world-water-architecture to see and hear how water architecture lets Rotterdam take the lead in reducing CO2 emissions and to enhance its reputation as a city of architecture.

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Sustainable and comfortable living on a sailboat

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Ecolution is being launchedGroningen, Friday July 16, 2010, Wubbo Ockels’ Ecolution touched water for the first time. Whereas Ecoboat (www.ecoboot.nl) is mainly a way of thinking about sustainability, the boat Ecolution actually realizes sustainability. Wind power is literally and figuratively the driving force for sustainability on board. While sailing, the propellers drive their generators (which can also act as motors) to recharge the batteries. One day of sailing stores enough energy for up to 10 days of comfortable living on board. More information on www.ecolutions.nl.
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