ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the adaptive reuse of De Ceuvel, the site of a former boatyard in Amsterdam. The project has a 10-year lease and uses the highly contaminated site as a setting for a composition of adapted houseboats, a café and associated spaces set in a landscape that remediates the site. The houseboats accommodate a community of socially and ecologically focussed organizations. The project includes many innovative ecological features that are closely monitored and communicated to visitors to create a sense of being a laboratory at the forefront of urban sustainability. The distinctive nature of the project has rapidly gained an iconic status and the clustering of the tenants has created a hub of innovative sustainable thinking.
