Schoonschip Floating Neighbourhood, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
Completed · Residential · Off-Grid Floating Residential Community · Temperate · 2021
Forty-six floating homes on the Johan van Hasseltkanaal forming Europe's most sustainable floating neighbourhood, using a shared DC microgrid, heat pump cluster drawing from canal water, and collectively managed solar generation and battery storage. Residents own and operate the energy infrastructure as a cooperative.
Innovation highlights
- Europe's first collectively owned DC microgrid serving floating homes
- Canal-water heat pump cluster supplying all domestic heating and cooling
- Peer-to-peer energy sharing between 46 households via smart inverter network
- Grey water treatment and rainwater harvesting integrated per vessel
- Resident cooperative owns and maintains shared energy infrastructure
- Client / Developer
- Schoonschip Residents Cooperative
- Architect
- Space&Matter
- Engineer
- Techno Physics / Various
- Type
- Off-Grid Floating Residential Community
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