Tulips floating on water Code PAC063 Living between the land and the sea, the gap and its flexibility becomes important. The practical part of everyday living is concentrated on the land, in a heavy slate tower, leaving the tulip boat free and light for the rest of living. korte koptekst vet courier size 2. Holland as a land. Holland sinking. Holland being dug out of the sea. Holland as a sponge. Delicate bridges between the floating / sinking / depositing land tables. Building rising and sinking, accommodating the level change. Ghost flood levels above your head. The importance of levels, and changeable levels, in a sinking / rising landscape. Living between the land and the sea, the gap and its flexibility becomes important. The practical part of everyday living is concentrated on the land, in a heavy slate tower, leaving the tulip boat free and light for the rest of living. In the tower is the kitchen, bathroom, waste disposal, plant, store, and office. In the boat one sleeps, and one lives. The two are connected by a flexible bridge/stair. This is a parallelogram of stairs, allowing the height of the connection to change, as the tulip boat rises and falls with the changing water level. The tower is waterproof, with submarine doors connecting to the boat, so that it remains closed and dry even if the water floods over the dyke. The canal living version of this concept is for singles who like to travel and feel free. They each have their own smaller individual boat in which they live and sleep. Then along the canal banks are a number of domestic pods (with a kitchen, bathroom, and waste disposal) and office pods (with computers and a store) . Any of these pods can be used by the canal livers, they just dock in and use the facilities. Both these ways of living allow for heavy activities, needing to have access to roads and services to take place on land, leaving the living boats free and light to float on the abundance of Dutch water. Development of Holland over time, reclaiming of land, flooding by sea. Zoom into detailed edge condition, indefinable, changing, delicate, of land/water. Flying above Holland, strips of land: texture of the brown earth, the soft green, and the gold of the water in dykes. Layers of Holland: 1. plates delicately rising and falling. 2. grid of the agricultural textures, run through with water. 3. tulips floating on water. Floods - the ghost level of the sea on the flood markers, and in the landscape, memories of the water remain. Shifting planes, held apart (afloat) by water. Changing levels of sea and land. Islands anchored by dykes. alluvial deposits - tulip fields. Tulips in long boats on the canal. Boats. The flexibility of the gap. The flexibility of the bridge. Bridge between the plates. Houses as bridges between plates. Boats as bridges along the canal. Concentrated weight surrounded by lightness, floating, or low lying balanced floaters. Tulips floating on water. Tulips as compact structure. Tulips opening out, development into dying flower. Petals to the ground, floating on water. Individual house: heavy concentrated core as natural pile into the marsh land, petals opening and closing as spaces of house - delicately balanced, moving with the rise and fall of the water/plates of Holland.