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Amsterdam-Noord (canal Johan van Hasselt, Buiksloterham)
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Projects in Amsterdam-Noord (canal Johan van Hasselt, Buiksloterham)
Schoonschip Amsterdam - new sanitation in a self-managed floating neighbourhoodFloating neighbourhood of 46 homes on 30 platforms (over 100 residents) on the Johan van Hasselt canal in Amsterdam-Noord (Buiksloterham), developed without a developer by a citizens' collective. In water and sanitation it applies new sanitation: separation of grey and black water, with a pilot together with Waternet to process blackwater in a floating digester that converts it into energy and to recover phosphate. The plant was built but Waternet has not yet put it into operation for legal reasons. The community self-organizes through a homeowners' association and the Pioneer Vessel foundation.De CeuvelCircular urban laboratory built in 2014 on a formerly contaminated shipyard in Amsterdam-Noord, granted by the municipality under a temporary concession (winning plan of a 2012 municipal competition, land lent for 10 years). A consortium (Space&Matter with Metabolic's sustainability plan) transformed the toxic soil using phytoremediation and populated the site with ~17 refurbished houseboats serving as offices for creative and social enterprises, plus a café-restaurant and event spaces. It operates as a 'living lab' for cleantech systems: solar panels, helophyte filters for wastewater, an aquaponics greenhouse, struvite reactors to recover nutrients and the Jouliette token for peer-to-peer energy exchange.