Koen Olthuis at Mosbuild as jury member & speaker
At one of world’s largest building exhibitions, as jury member, Koen Olthuis announced price winners of the MADA award organized by Archiworld.
BBC News: Flood-proof homes the Dutch way
BBC News featured Koen Olthuis and Waterstudio’s Watervilla IJburg
As thousands in the UK continue to deal with the misery of flooding, the Netherlands is pioneering the field of flood-proof homes.
Projects include floating homes, which rise and fall with the water levels, and amphibious homes that sit on dry land but float is water encroaches.
While the amphibious houses cost about 20% more than conventional buildings, the Dutch have learned the investment is still cheaper than that of cleaning up afterwards.
Only one day until Koen’s talk at TEDxVilnius
Saturday February 22nd Koen will do his TED talk: Top 10 Trends Towards Floating Cities at the TEDxVilnius in Lithuania
Citadel in CNN’s top 10 eye-popping buildings
Citadel one of the 10 eye-popping new buildings that you’ll see in 2014
Design workshop with Manchester University students
Waterstudio organized a valuable brainstorm session with students of the Manchester Metropolitan University for floating development concepts
Together with students of the Manchester Metropolitan University, Waterstudio organized a valuable brainsession. After an introduction in the work of Waterstudio the students were challeged to come up with new concept ideas for floating developments. The session resulted in some great ideas and we can say the workshop was a big success for both the University and Waterstudio.
