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| Water dwellings, Schillingdijk |
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Built on concrete bases which are smaller than the houses, making this a true case of living over water.
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| Six Water houses |
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 | | The six floating houses in IJburg, Amsterdam are prototypes for flexible houses on the water. The occupier can change the form and location of the house as and when desired. |
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| The Wheel Houses |
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 | | Henk van Eldijk drew inspiration from traditional Dutch dyke houses which are draped over the dyke flank. |
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| Water Dwelling |
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 | | Conventional houseboats are more boat than house. Herman Hertzberger’s waterborne dwellings are real, comfortable homes that still have the advantages of a houseboat. |
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| All Hands on Deck 47 dwellings |
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 | | The tradition of mass produced housing is strong in the Netherlands. This project aims to reconcile this approach with the increasing demand for customized housing. |
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| Silodam |
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 | | The 157 apartments on the Silodam causeway form a little town in the water: groups of 4 to 8 houses are put together in mini-neighbourhoods, suggesting a chest of drawers. |
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| Aqua Domus and Aqua Villa |
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 | | Visser and Broersma have designed two types of floating dwellings using a Canadian system. The system allows considerable flexibility. |
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| Attika water housing catalogue |
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 | | Simple experiences with water play a part in Attika’s water housing catalogue. They include reflections, that are specific to water and appear in the various house types in the catalogue. |
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| Water dwelling |
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 | | The architects expect half the Netherlands to be permanently flooded within a few decades. Their Archimedes water house is designed for a self-sufficient lifestyle on the waters of future Holland. |
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| Borneo House |
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 | | The houses on the Borneo Peninsula, Amsterdam, had to comply with some general conditions as to
height and width, but otherwise the clients and their architects had a free hand.
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| Amphibious Home - Permafrost, 232 |
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 | | H2O occurs in two forms in 'Amphibious Living' as a fluid (water) and a solid (ice). The Amphibious Home floats on an ice floe on the water. |
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| Plan Tij |
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 | | The homes are diverse in design and relate to the water in different ways. Some rest on piles in the water, others lie alongside jetties and others are ‘boathouse’ dwellings |
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| Woonhuis |
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 | | The converted house in Vreeland is not only partly surrounded by water, but uses the water for heating and cooling. |
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| 2 x 12 private sector homes |
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 | | The design is for two buildings each made up of twelve apartments. Each building consists of four volumes of three apartments. |
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| 8 Watervilla's |
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 | | Semi-waterhouses, Ypenburg |
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| Bickershoek |
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 | | A contemporary design respecting the urban context of the Westerdok |
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| Mill Veenman |
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 | | In the South Holland countryside near the village of Berkel en Rodenrijs, an old, subsided watermill provided the site for this villa design. |
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| Villa on the Loosdrecht Lakes Villa ‘Eendenvlucht’ |
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 | | A precondition for building in the Loosdrechtse Plassen (lakes) area is that the surface area of water within the parcel, and hence the storage capacity of the lake, is not reduced. |
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| Watervilla |
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 | | The house is situated on a plot outside the river dykes at the Westeinderplassen (lakes) in Kudelstaart. |
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| 53 dwellings Noorderplassen |
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 | | Transparency, lines of sight, interpenetration and contact with the water are the chief hallmarks of this design for a residential island on the Noorderplassen. These elements combine with the building to produce a single built structure, the ‘UFO’, which appears to be rising out of the water. |
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| IJsselpromenade |
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 | | Houses nestling up against the dyke in the city Krimpen a/d IJssel |
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| Watertuinen Groote Wielen |
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 | | 74 dwellings, De Groote Wielen, Watertuinen were developed for ‘s-Hertogenbosch. |
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| Boatport |
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 | | The new city-edge development is conceived as a residential area richly endowed with water. |
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| Karperkuil |
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 | | The urban plan prepared by Buro Zandvoort relates to a bastion (a projecting section of a city wall) in the second city wall, dating from around 1500, along the Karperkuil. |
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| Water villas and apartments |
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 | | The water villas and the apartment building together make an undulating movement along the lake in the ecological zone of the Weihoek development in Rosendaal. |
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| Student units in the water |
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 | | To one side of the Haagse Hogeschool higher education institute in Neherkade, The Hague, there is room to provide eight student accommodation units. |
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