What is Ecoboat?
Ecoboat (boot is the Dutch word for boat) is a way of thinking about a sustainable future. A future in which one is independent of fossil fuels and prepared for a rise of the sea level. Considering the climate change, the Ecoboat idea of living at sea is not a bad one. An ever greater part of the world population lives in metropolises. Especially in metropolises the scarcity of the three essential conditions of life:
- space
- energy, and
- water
is felt most strongly. Most of the metropolises lie in deltas and/or along the shore. On the other side of the shoreline (envision a mirror image of the metropolis) one finds an area with just an abundance of:
- space (with proper protection against the waves, metropolises can be extended here with floating buildings and infrastructure)
- energy (this is still uncontrolled energy, that is why we don’t live there yet, but ever better methods are discovered to convert this wild energy in useful energy)
- water (with the energy of the waves sea water can be converted to drinking water and water for irrigation).
On this site you can read about different initiatives and research to make a sustainable future happen by using the space, energy and water on the other side of the shoreline.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Hi
I am very interested in your website as I am currently searching the River Thames in london to open up sites for residential boat moorings, the vision is to have a mixture of traditional houseboats and contemporary designs to form an eco village. We are looking for support from the Mayor of London for this.
I think the time is right in england due to fears about flooding and the very high cost of land.
I am planning to visit the exhibiton advertised on your website in the next month and would like to also meet some architects/builders of contemporary houseboats when I visit.
Thankyou for all your work with the website, it gives us extra credibility when we try to sell this concept to the english authorities that work is being done elsewhere.
best regards
Hugh Miller
July 30th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Hello,
I’m purchasing a piece of land in SE Louisiana, and because of the now outrageous flood insurance rates since Hurricane Katrina, I’m interested in building an amphibious home. Please send me more information about Ecoboat.
I just may be the first in my area to build such a home, and who knows— I may just start a trend here. Thanks.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:17 am
We are interested in finding out more about the homes and if they are available. We are interested in bringing a ecoboot to Rapanui, aka Easter Island where we live.
Susan Hitorangi
(845) 371-2100
June 12th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I have a plot of land in the Caribbean approximately 100 -150m from the sea, over the past 3 decades the Island has suffered significant costal erosion. Hurricaines are now common and the season runs from August to November. The land itself is a marsh and I was intrigued to hear someone had already designed and built a floating house as it was the solution that I had visualised for that situation. I would be very interested to learn more abou all aspects of the concept.
Regards
Robin Lawrence
August 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I work for Text Internet Marketing, we’ve just launched a website for a company called Floating Concepts at http://www.floatingconcepts.co.uk it may be worth contacting them regarding this project.
Regards,
Simon Dalley.
Marketing Account Manager
Text Internet Marketing
http:www.text.co.uk
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I like your concept, and I also want to help people to get the type of building needed for the future. I realize people like to have variety of choice and style, and that construction method influences design. That’s why I have devised some methods to make it easier to achieve these goals, by considering strategies made available by new technologies. My system would help our common goal to become a reality. We need to rebuild our polluting infrastructures into environmentally-friendly communities.
Ben H buggytime@hotmail.com
February 19th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Ĉu vi povas skribi paĝojn de tiuj-ĉi TTT-paĝoj en la Interncia Lingvo (Esperanto), ĉar mi opinias ke tiu ideo povas interesi multajn personojn tra la planedo, ne nur angl-parolantoj kaj nederland-parolantoj.
Mi komprenis ke vi kapablas konstrui domojn kaj eĉ vilaĝojn flosantajn sur akvo : belega koncepto, kiam nun la akvo de nia planedo supreniras !
Dankon.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:16 am
My name is Rebecca Pasternack and I just completed my Masters of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, California. This year, I won a traveling fellowship in which I proposed to study water-based housing in the Netherlands. I will be traveling to the Netherlands this summer from July 7-July 30 (and to Berlin from July 30-Aug 4) to meet with the architects who have designed the floating projects and to visit the actual projects.
I was referred to this web-site by Tjerk Reijenga, a Dutch architect from Gouda. Based on what I have read on this web-site, I am interested in planning a trip to TU Delft and possibly meet with the DeltaSync team and learn more about your work. If you have any contacts at TU Delft, please let me know.
If you are interested, I can send you my thesis, resume. etc. Contact me at rpasternack@gmail.com. My website (www.rebeccapasternack.com/aquatecture) is still under construction.
Thank you!
Rebecca
August 24th, 2010 at 11:00 am
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