Schoonschip is a floating residential development of 46 households in a former industrial area of North Amsterdam.

It has been hailed internationally as a prototype for floating urban development, and innovative resilient city design.

Space&Matter helped the group develop their dreams and find a location to realise it. Together with the community, they co-designed the urban plan, the building rules and the smart jetty.

This system connects each house with each other and with the necessary technical infrastructure they need.

The neighborhood has a unique appearance with great diversity of materials, styles and building types.

Schoonschip is built on a circular community model, which rethinks how we organise our cities, both socially and spatially, to tackle the systemic roots of climate change and create a connected community with strong social values.

The complex includes solar panels connected to a smart-grid and water treatment technologies used to (re)collect energy and nutrients from wastewater.

Schoonschip demonstrates how circular neighborhoods can be created through empowering residents to take responsibility over their resource consumption and waste.

Other sustainable innovations, such as a car sharing system, contribute to creating a resilient, self-sufficient, and socially cohesive neighborhood.

It applies simple yet effective innovations which offer not only environmental but also social and economic benefits. These innovations offer points of learning and can be translated in different environmental and geographical contexts