Verified · May 20261 min read
● projectActive · local · 2014
De Ceuvel
Circular 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).
illustrative atlas image · Lester / Unsplash01 The context
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.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
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EvidenceTKI Loop-closure Cleantech Playground (KWR 2016.081)KWR Water Research Institute · 2016