Written by: Koen Olthuis and David Keuning. Publication: Frame, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010.   Float! Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change proposes a new way of building: on water instead of on land. Although the concept…

The petropolis of tomorrow, Neeraj Bhatia & Mary Casper, 2013. In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean.…

Written by: Koen Olthuis, Kasirajan Mahalingam, Pierre-Baptiste Tartas and Chris Zevenbergen.   Abstract A previous study by the authors found that most slum physical upgrading projects traditionally focus on basic services, elaborated with citywide data, without addressing locational and environmental…

Conceptualisation and Design exploration of Living@Sea is to explore how living space at sea can be accommodated on modular floating platforms which are used for multiple functions at sea. The starting point for the exploration is to consider modular triangular…

Written by: Koen Olthuis, Jiya Benni, Kristin Eichwede, Chris Zevenbergen.   Abstract The world population is growing rapidly and much of that growth is happening in urban areas. In developing countries, this process is often accompanied by the formation and…

Written by: Koen Olthuis, Pierre-Baptiste Tartas and Chris Zevenbergen. WCFS 2019, Proceedings of the World Conference on Floating Solutions, 22-23 April 2019. Publication: Springer, Singapore, 2020.   Abstract The megalopolis of Dhaka, Bangladesh faces, in a larger scale, common issues…