The Netherlands Water Partnership has recently shared an article to spread awareness of the achievements and goals of Blue21 and how they align with initiatives of the Netherlands Water Partnership.

As highlighted by Blue21 cofounder, Rutger de Graaf, “Around the world people are seeing how they need to redefine their relationship with water.. Floating solutions can make cities more resilient and create new ecosystems at the same time. We joined NWP so that we can help incorporate these solutions in the international Dutch delta technology ‘toolkit’.”

Read the full article here.

The Space@Sea report on “Technical, comfort and safety requirements of Living@Sea” is now also available!

Blue21 researcher and intern, Arnav Doss has completed his graduation thesis, “Impact of box-type floating breakwater on motion response of hydrodynamically coupled floating platforms downstream”. His thesis analyses a few design variables to find an effective floating breakwater configuration that minimizes motion response in platforms downstream.  

“Living@Sea business case” report from the 3-year (2017-2020) EU Horizon2020-funded research project, Space@Sea, is now available. 

The report “Conceptualization and Design Exploration of Living@Sea” is now available!

Blue21 architect and researcher, Barbara Dal Bo Zanon will be featured at this year’s virtual Barranquilla Climathon.

In celebration of World Cities Day, Blue21 is happy to announce that co-founder, Rutger de Graaf’s new book about Climate Resilient Urban Areas which will be published soon.