Marlies Rohmer Architects, is an Architecture firm based in Amsterdam. It is a famous firm in the area which take part in my different projects around netherlands and the rest of the world. The CEO Marlies Rohmer, is a very established architects in the industry and is the creator of Ijburg district floating houses. I have decided to look at Marlies Rohmer as inspiration, because the ijburg project is very similar to my own.
The technique used in this project to keep the house afloat is a similar technique used in the Amphibious house in marlow on the bank of the river thames. They have used hollow concrete tanks filled with floating materials, this keeps the house floating and the concrete gives the base a good weight to keep the house stable. Although this project is a series of houses, I can still take something away due to the fact its on water but I will experiment doing a series of houses as experiments.
After looking at how this project was designed and constructed, I have decided to use concrete as my base, because it has been used in two different floating home projects. Concrete also passed the experiments against water and it performs well on water. The only negative aspect about the concrete is the brutal texture which some people may not agree with but it adds a sense of protection and shell to the house which makes it harder to break into.
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