Keeping To An Unusual Home Theme,

here is a floating city, well town,

there are nearly 100 individual floating homes moored on Lake Eimer, in the Ijburg district of Holland,

Waterbuurt (Dutch for “water quarter”) is a state of the art residential development in Amsterdam,

they float adjacent to jetties and are moored to steel pylons, so they only move vertically with the changing tide. Designed by Dutch architect Marlies Rohmer, the houses have a “no-nonsense, basic design” but are comfortable at the same time,

they were built at a shipyard about 65 km north of Lake Eimer and then transported through a network of canals. Although the Waterbuurt is still a work in progress, some of the houses are already inhabited,

“It’s already safer to live on water if you live where flooding is common, aquatic architecture visionary Koen Olthuis told the BBC. “And most big cities are already densely populated and the square-meter (housing) prices are rising rapidly… and water is not as expensive as land.” 

the floating homes are built atop submerged concrete platforms, and consists of a light steel frame and wooden walls and panelling, the bedrooms and bathroom are located on the lower floor, which is partially flooded, the kitchen and dining room a re located on the raised ground floor, while the main living area and the outdoor terrace are on the top level, what a neat idea if you have plenty of water in your country.