Why this proposal can´t be in other place? Because of the presence of the water... Water is life, and with it vegetation grows, With these two reasons the explanation of the project begins; the main approaches of this proposal are determined in the next points: + The cross of the canal where the site is gives us a privileged position for being one of the doors for the old center of the city, give us a transition of living on the land and at the same time in the water. + To reduce the quantity of ground floor area and high raise the living spaces, with this, the public space: green and water is given to the neighborhood. The public spaces are treated as: one part with squares paved, the other part with vegetation and the technic of Chinampas: agroecology, wetland fields... The mutation of water-land-human being... Most of the time the buildings are a frontier to delimit, to avoid to keep...but in this case the building flies, and let us follow our sight through water land. We discovered that a rigid grid was the very best way to enhance our flexibility. It was the most free way to get as much as freedom to develop our idea: stuck the existing Groningen to form self-sustained cells. Communities that throw themselves onto the water. Hence, the ground floor was the key to success. Once the grid is established, every slab or city stack is cut for no left overs. Opening light and courtyards, and Opening part of the ground floor, and creating in the water housing an open livingroom, the space underneath the buildings gets delicate, intriguing. Get to know how those units adapt to their environment, and they do not lose the small scale.

In the first phase 16 642,8 sqm can be built. Each building has 5, 547.6 sqm. The front part of the street in the ground and first level are offices, the rest for housing and equipment development. In the second phase the waterfront, it is included with the houseboat

Status: Proposal for Europan competition Collaboration: Rojkind y Arq. Iñaki Arbelaiz