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First project in the area of The New Water is the Citadel, the first floating apartment complex. With the design of the Citadel the level of ambition is set high. The building will consist of 60 luxury apartments with enough parking spaces and large terraces. The fluent shaped design of the Citadel clearly shows the endless possibilities of building on water. Architect Koen Olthuis www.waterstudio.nl

New Water (Het Nieuwe Water) will be a benchmark project in Dutch water-management developments. The artificially maintained water level of this former polder, measuring approximately 2,5km by 500m (70ha), will be raised to bosom-level, creating a site that will not only act as a regional contingency water storage area, but also hosts a multitude of water-related developments including 1200 dwellings. The first project of the New Water will be the apartmentcomplex Citadel. Ecological, recreational and residential demands are integrated into a landscape that is organized into different thematic compartments , each offering a specific experience of the water, specific building typologies, and a range of different ecological habitats, in the ecological zone there will be the stilthouses they are free from the floor so they don’t effect the zone. Architect Koen Olthuis www.waterstudio.nl

For a location in Amsterdam Waterstudio.NL designed a floating apartment complex, a floating island with villas and stilt houses. The apartment complex and island have a cosy and safe courtyard and the houses have their terraces directly at the water. The stilt houses stand high above the ground looking out over the area and have private terraces underneath close to the water Architect Koen Olthuis

This floating cruiseterminal is large enough to allow simultaneous mooring of three of worlds largest cruise ships. The lifted point of the triangular shape forms the entrance to the inner harbour for smaller ships and water-taxis to mainland. Inside the terminal there is 165.000m2 of space for retail, conference, cinema, hotel etc.. www.waterstudio.nl Architect Koen Olthuis – Waterstudio.NL and Dutch Docklands

A 25 stories high floating hotel tower rotates 1 degree every minute. The floating foundation measures only 6 meter in depth. A fixed floating boulevard-ring connects the shore with the tower. The construction of steel and glass has been designed and engineered with well-known Dutch international maritime engineering companies, which results in a stable tower. www.waterstudio.nl Architect Koen Olthuis – Waterstudio.nl and Dutch Docklands

This spacious villa demonstrates that floating architecture has become completely equivalent to land-based dwellings modern, light and transparent. The dwelling is an amphibious structure, floating on water yet surrounded by land on three sides. There are three types of amphibious houses: the full-wet type normally floats, but can, in case of extreme low water level, fall dry on a foundation in the waterbed. The full-dry is exact opposite the house is usually supported by a foundation, but can rise with the waterlevel and become floating when floods occur. This villa is a third type which is basically a floating dwelling that is surrounded by land so that it looks as though it is land-based. Surrounded by land on three sides, this floating villa looks as a normal house at the waterside, but is capable of dealing with fluctuations in water level of up to 30cm. Architect Koen Olthuis