One of the most attractive aspects of life in Amsterdam is being able to buy a boat and experience the city from water level on your own. This certainly applies to the newly developed residential area in the Eastern Docklands, where houses are even closer to the water than in the original centre of town. However, the available shoreline is already occupied by house boats.
Even if they were turned a quarter to make more space, small boats could not be accommodated.

In the former Railroad Basin, a floating jetty is home to 200 vessels. Most of them are owned by local residents, so a neighbourhood watch is guaranteed. The project is the happy result of a cooperation between the local borough, a yacht club and a sailing school.

A simple arched bridge connects the jetty with the mainland. A metal gate halfway opens for those who belong there and keeps all others out. Less is impossible, more isn’t necessary.