Schoonschip Floating Community
Amsterdam NL
space&matter
2020
Type
Collective dwelling
Tags
shared spaces , participatory processes, new ecological paradigm, new lifestyles, cooperatives, New European Bauhaus, transparence, 200Best
Visitability
Visible from the street
Description
Schoonschip is Amsterdam’s first floating, circular neighbourhood constructed in a post industrial area in the north of the city. The community-initiated project was mobilized by Space&Matter, who helped the group develop their dream, and find a location to realize it. In co-creation with the group, Space&Matter designed the urban plan, the building rules and the smart jetty, which connects each house with each other and with the necessary technical infrastructures they need. Leaving the residents freedom to pick an individual architect to design their house, the neighborhood has a unique appearance with great diversity of materials, styles and building types. With off-grid, decentralized and renewable solutions to water, energy and waste systems, Schoonschip includes solar panels connected to a smart-grid where residents can trade energy, submersed heat exchangers for heating and cooling, and water treatment technologies used to (re)collect energy and nutrients from wastewater. Other sustainable innovations, such as a car sharing system, contribute to creating to a resilient, self-sufficient, and socially cohesive neighborhood. Schoonschip demonstrates how circular neighborhoods can be created through empowering residents to take responsibility of their resource consumption and waste.(Description provided by the architects)