On the whole: Design on scale 1:12 a floating,
partly closed infrastructure with 4 floors above each other. In
it will be a minimum of 7 dwellings, each with a maximum height of 8 metres
taking 100 square metres of space without garden. The model will be 2.5
metres high and take about 10 square metres space. These are global measurements.
A meter more or less doesn't matter.
Participants individually will design a dwelling, apart from two who will
build a dwelling yacht each, and one designer who will work on light transportation.
There are three group assignments:
Jordy Balvers, G + N, Willem Hoebink and Jurgen Bey design the
infrasructure's construction.
Bertjan Pot, Myrza de Muynck and Frank Spee develop a public provision inside
the infrastructure.
Marije Kalshoven, Eugène van Veldhoven and Floor Koppenaal design
from the do-it-yourself perspective.
Mutual fine tuning is essential. Coherence is in principles and
quality, not in style.
Apart from the technological background, new materials, attachments, designers
will have to indulge in themes like: luxury, tradition, familiarity, colour,
machismo, softness, gadgetry.
Because of the trend to gradually retrocede polder to the water and starting
from the idea that what lightly floats on water will also 'bob' on land
, the intention is to develop a principle for a floating infrastructure.
Apart from the infrastructure scenario other angles will be explored. There
could be a scenario based on yacht building. A luxury yacht that is as big
as a normal house, weighs about 90 percent less. A certain material technology
could also be a promising starting point. The same is true for the fashion
industry, Taking into account that clothing is the most efficient way to
create a microclimate in which one can live.