Gem of the day: Floating Home

Hi Steemians, today I would like to continue the momentum of curating amazing floating home. This amazing modern boat house could be adapted in any where around the world. In the first floating house series, I mentioned that the amazing vernacular floating house in Canada and mentioned the sustainability of a entire neighborhood that are constructed out of floating houses.

In this floating house series, I would like to curate a modern floating home at Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Designed by +31 Architects, this Gem is a modern days boat house. Constructed with concrete hull and modernizing with housing appearance, the floating really blend in to the surrounding when it was view from street level.

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Yup, it just like a normal house to me from street level.

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You might this single storey floating house must be small, and have few space in it. However, it is more spacious than you think. Due to using concrete hull as main structure, the hull makes the building easy to fabricate at once and creating a empty room/ spacious room underneath the water level.

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To clarify the statement above, the image above shows the floor plans of the floating house. The plan on the top is the room above water level. While the plan below it is room below the water level.

Why it has to be constructed in this way?

In this method, the project would cost less in material to keeps the structure a floats and the needs of more material to constructive a double storey structure. Besides that, submerging the other half could make the house more stable and eliminate wobbling effect on the river.

More space to show

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The staircase down to the space beneath the water level.

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You may thought this area is in a standard apartment, but this is the room beneath water level.

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Even though it is under water level, the space are actually illuminated by natural light.

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I hope I can visit one of this floating house tho.

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Sit in the dining area, and over see the entire riverfront. Your best seat ever in the house.

What will readers expecting next floating house series?

As mentioned, Reader would expecting more examples of floating house around the world and (myself would propose a floating house in my hometown, Kota Kinabalu- and I still working on it) If you have any idea on floating house, do share it with us and drop your ideas, comments in the comment box below. Thank you

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