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

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Koen Olthuis is one of the young architects leading Holland, and the world, toward an amphibious future. From floating houses to a floating cruise ship terminal, Olthuis believes the best way to live with water is to live on water.