Schoonschip

SCHOONSCHIP, which means “FairSkippers”, is a unique floating urban development in the Circular Living Lab Buiksloterham, a post-industrial area in Amsterdam North, where the De Ceuvel is located (- Buiksloterham is an in-the-making circular neighbourhood and is a pioneering project for Amsterdam’s transformation to a future-proof city). The original and primary idea of realising a floating area on water based on circularity principles dates to 2008. It was a group of individual idealists who joined forces to create this unique community living on the water called Schoonschip and, thus, fitting perfectly into the overall framework and idea of Buiksloterham From notion to completion, the project took 12 years, starting 2008 on paper and adding the last households 2020. Finally, 46 families with about 144 people live together in 30 single or double-family houseboats in the Johan van Hasseltkanaal.