INTRODUCTION the cleantech playground The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a planned cleantech utility and demonstration ground that will be integrated throughout two adjacent sites in North Amsterdam: a land-based office and commercial park, de Ceuvel, and a water-based residential community, Schoonschip. It will combine urban agriculture, small-scale renewable energy technologies, biological water purification systems, urban food production, and several other components of a healthy urban metabolism to: › › produce food purify water › generate energy › › › treat organic waste support cleantech R&D, and provide education and inspiration for those wishing to adopt decentralized and renewable technologies This report presents Metabolic Lab’s recommendations for how to achieve these goals in a financially, socially, and technologically feasible manner. By following the recommended phasing plan and achieving the targets outlined here, de Ceuvel and Schoonschip can become among the most socially and ecologically sustainable developments in the world. Our recommendations also include ways to make the system measurable and transparent; a network of sensors installed throughout both sites will monitor the system’s performance, display this information for the community, and provide insights for continued development. In particular, the de Ceuvel site will have many areas open for public visits where these technologies will be on display for all to see and understand. Construction on the de Ceuvel site will begin in spring of 2013. The Schoonschip community does not yet have its site secured, but hopes to win a tender procedure held by the municipality of Amsterdam for a property directly adjacent to de Ceuvel. PROJECT BACKGROUND Schoonschip and de Ceuvel are two separate community development projects that were initiated by different, but overlapping groups of citizens. Sustainability has been a key objective of both projects since their inception, with both groups requiring all members to sign a manifesto committing them to sustainable living and practices. Schoonschip was the initiative of Marjan de Blok who was inspired by the Gewoonboot, a largely autarkic houseboat docked in Amsterdam North, to imagine the possibility of a sustainable floating community in her home city. She soon found a group of citizens inspired by the same vision, and formed a foundation to oversee the process. This now close-knit community has been working towards securing a site for the execution of the plan since 2009, with many of the community’s members taking leading roles in pushing the project forward (among them, board members Sjoerd Dijkstra, Thomas Sykora, and Marnix van der Pool). The de Ceuvel project was initiated by space&matter and Smeelearchitectuur, and the concept for the site was developed by space&matter. De Ceuvel is a 10-year temporary development that will feature beatifully retrofitted houseboats placed on the land and surrounded by a “forbidden garden” of soil-cleaning plants. The architectural plan for both sites has been developed by space&matter and the phytoremediation plan for the de Ceuvel site is being developed by Delva Landscape Architects in collaboration with the University of Ghent in Belgium. The overall feasibility study for both projects was conducted by space&matter (design) and Duurzaam Drijvend Wonen (finances). In September 2012, Metabolic Lab received financial support from InnovatieNetwerk, a program of the Dutch ministry of economic affairs, to help translate the projects’ high sustainability ambitions into a concrete, implementable technical design with a workable business case. The design process involved close collaboration with the existing development team as well as regular feedback from both the Schoonschip and de Ceuvel communities and other relevant stakeholders. Metabolic Lab worked closely with these groups to develop a technological plan that was consistent with the broader vision behind both developments. Pagina 8
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