Jetties Waterbuurten
Amsterdam

The floating houses in the Waterbuurt area are accessed by public jetties. Officially only pedestrians are welcome. As the project is located in Amsterdam bikers also use the jetties.

Built on prefabricated concrete piles, these concrete jetties have been designed as public spaces, narrow “streets” that occasionally widen. Under the aluminium deck of the jetties, there is space for cabling and pipes (electricity, sewage, water, gas, glass-fibre, etc.). The meter boxes for the floating homes are also on the jetties. Flexible connections have been created between the meter boxes and the housing, to accommodate the rise and fall of the tides. The jetties are interconnected by bridges that open.

client
Municipality of Amsterdam

involvement Monteflore
co-engineer, project manager


architect
Andries Laane, VillaNova Architecten, Rotterdam

structural engineer
Van der Vorm Engineering Delft, Delft

general contractor
Nelis Infra
program
7 jetties including cables and ducts (for water, sewage, electricity, gas and glass fibre) for floating homes

gross sq. m.
2,250 sq. m.

period
2002-2007

status
delivered

address
IJburglaan and Brigantijnkade, Amsterdam