Floating inbetween Code PAC022 The neighbourhoods are placed in a biotope with changing water levels. Streets and canals are equal as ways of transport. Each settlement consists out of 25-35 housing units and some community units. Each raft is manoeuverable around a fixed mast. They are constructed out of premanufactured wooden walls. The main interest of "amphibious living" for us is the effect of constantly physical changes of different water conditions on the city design. The main aspect was to reconcile the attributes of housing in an immovable building and of housing in a drifting vessel, something that laid on the border between both types, something we caught our motto for: Floating Inbetween. The three residential neighbourhoods are designed in a damp biotope with changing water levels depending on tides. Their city layout is determined by the natural condition of the landscape. Some riverbeds have a water level reasonable for traffic with boats also during the low tide; these are connected with artificial canals leading to the residential units. The neighbourhoods are connected by a main road to the continent. Every settlement consists out of 25-35 housing units and some community units, like public gardens, a small grocery shop or a marina. Individual units, like farmhouses or hostels are situated in distance to the settlements. The urban design corresponds to the water conditions. Its qualities are significant in the arrangement of the whole residential neighbourhood and the layout of each unit: Streets and canals are equal as ways of transport, the organisational structure follows the claim moving the units separately and easily, the traffic and technical infrastructure is flexible with the tides, the unit itself is floating around a fixed mast and turning in individually manoeuvrable orientation to the sun or towards a neighbour. Some attributes of conventional housing are applied: Each unit has a determined location within the urban system and its dimension defines the diameter of the site. The streets are assigned equal for cars, bicycles and pedestrians. Constructed on pontoons, the whole technical infrastructure is led below the road surface within closed and secure mains-boxes. Each unit is bound up to the mains-boxes through the central housing axes by flexible pipes. The canals could be serviceable for public and freight transports, garbage disposal and individual boat traffic. The units provide space for a parking lot and landing place for a small boat. The residential unit: The inner organisation of a residential unit is adaptable to its inhabitants. The proposed four room flat consists out of a gross size of120 m2. The ground level is proposed for common actions and the kitchen, the bathroom in the top level is close to the centre of rotation inclosing the mains within its tube, the rooms are neutral usable, the roof is considered to offer green terraces. The foundations of the units are broad plates prefabricated out of reinforced concrete, which could be sunk on the ground surface, doing without deep excavation; the foundation plates offer standardised preparations to connect a unit with the public mains. The centre of rotation will be fixed in an assigned whole - if necessary, this is done by divers. The unit itself is constructed on a pontoon raft. The construction consists of premanufactured wooden walls, made out of coated birch-plywood. This material is very durable, has a light weight, is manufacturable with industrial machines and natural. The units can be erected within a dockyard and hauled through canals to its destination; it can also be assembled out of premanufactured elements on site, transported on small vans.