Op de Ecoboot site wordt leuk naar de toekomst gekeken, maar welke realistische stappen kun je nu al zetten? In Stedenbouw en Architectuur schrijft Ties Rijcken wat er NU speelt en NU gedaan kan worden in de binnenwateren van Nederland. Zijn advies aan urban designers en architecten is om je te richten op het toelaten van waterpeilfluctuaties in je ontwerp of op het slim inzetten van de verplaatsbaarheid van drijvende gebouwen.
Alix Kroeger of BBC News went to Maasbommel in The Netherlands to check out new ways of dealing with climate change. Floating houses are a perfect solution when water threatens a densely populated country from all sides: more rain, more water carried by the rivers in certain periods, and rising sea levels. Read here our transcript of the interview with experts and residents of floating homes including snapshots of the TV broadcast.
Redactrice Friederike de Raat van het NRC Handelsblad schreef een artikel over waterproof woningen: woningen die op de een of andere manier bescherming bieden tegen stijgingen van het waterpeil.
Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC radio keeps you current (in “The Current”) about effects of global warming and what can be done about it. In the setting of a fictitious Canadian backpacker you can follow her experiences in different cities as well as listen to interviews with experts. Listen in RealAudio to Temonti’s interview with Professor Schoute about floating cities.
A consortium of groups of TU Delft students won the first, second and fourth prize with their innovative solutions for crowded deltas. The design of a floating city between Amsterdam and Almere won the first prize. With large thermodomes -as already envisaged by Buckminster Fuller- the city is largely self-sufficient. Nevertheless the design gives inhabitants ample room to park their car in front of their house. Click here to download a 6.7 MB PDF file with nice pictures and a full description of this winning design.
The second prize was won by the group read more »
Two groups of Asian MSc students considered the threat of rising sea levels and the solution of floating cities. This way they acquainted themselves very good for their next two years of study at the TU Delft. Download the poster of group one by (right) clicking the underlined link. The poster is a pretty result of a few introductory summerschool weeks.
Rising sea levels are a threat to London, but also chance for young architects. Architecture student Anthony Lau won the student prize for sustainable design with a facinating poster. The prize was awarded by the Royal Institute of Architects. You can download his facinating poster here.
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Arie Taal helped Poppa Neutrino to build a new raft. This time (he did already the Atlantic Ocean) Poppa wants to cross the Pacific Ocean, floating towards China. Arie Taal, being a member of the Frisian Secret Service since the sixties, has a deep and first hand insight in anything related to floating islands and rafts. We are glad to present the weblog of Arie Taal on this Ecoboot site. We hope to add pictures and more text soon, but don’t wait reading the stories that are already there, by clicking the title above.
After hurricane Katrina, Susan Taylor Martin, senior correspondent of the Saint Petersburg Times, traveled to the Netherlands. Approximately half of this country is below sea level and parts have been struck by floods. Maybe the Dutch have something interesting to tell… So Susan spoke with several Dutchmen…
