it is. many people dream of living on the water here in europe that tends to mean a come out boat or something similar but how about a real house with almost call ins and on up stairs and down stairs of course the experts living on the water but we've been to a housing complex in amsterdam that floats on the homes are environmentally friendly as well. living on water in the city center one day more than 100 people will live on the side canal in amsterdam. marco 3 then his wife yvonne fun sark are among the 1st residents. to this latest good food it's a different way of life here the more this way and the water's sparkles and reflects everywhere. their house is one of

a total of 30 buildings that are part of this cone skip amsterdam project each building has its own design 20 different architects were involved in the project the houses were built on land and then brought to the dock by boat sustainability is particularly important to the inhabitants. translates to clean ship. they wanted to achieve is to show that you can. turn with very sustainable houses and in a sustainable way in the sense that we as a community. like all the buildings paired to hikes house has its own solar power supply sustainable and eco friendly materials were used for all the homes. one of the 1st floating districts in amsterdam was built just a couple of years ago in the district of i believe 50 houses on artificial islands demand for the floating homes is on the rise in the netherlands there are several.

areas where they are building houses in communities over 520200 houses. for even fun sark and marcus this vision has now become reality $115.00 square metres 2 floors a roof garden almost like a house in the countryside. there is one difference their home sways. yet but i did have a day where i need to set foot on some solid ground. price to pay for their dream of living on the water. my colleague melissa holroyd has been looking into this living on the water and as i said the world experts they are the netherlands is of course one of the lowest lying countries in the world. areas of below sea levels that means they have

actually have to take action this is nothing new for the dutch they've been doing it for the last 800 years with ducks and dikes and canals and doing whatever they can to keep dry they also have a very long history of house floods the situation there generally not just getting more q yeah we're global warming and rising sea levels means it takes all back aqua tex very hard for solutions gone skip is a possible solution to these environmental changes that we're all facing of course . as we heard these are meant to be environmentally friendly all these houses in the piece but tell us a bit more about yeah ok so the homes are very well insulated they're also connected to a network so if one house has excess energy and one house doesn't have enough energy they can then do a trade off and get some energy off their neighbor they've also got some. a roof

many of them also have green roofs so people can grow vegetables on the roof if they so choose the waste water from the showers and toilets is treated as a refinery that uses it to produce more energy heat from the houses comes from a system that works like a geothermal pump that extracts heat from the can now the people living there have also renounced their cars and instead share electric cars it all sounds very wonderful the big question how much that cost house costs between 300900000 year are not cheap because. while building floating homes can be more expensive because of the engineering and because of the architecture involved these same principles can be used to create more affordable housing and of course it's not just a doctor problem i mean there's a whole lot going on when it comes to floating structures around the world in london for example british architects back up planning floating homes in the royal

docks they're also talking about of. copenhagen has responded to the lack of affordable student housing with the so-called urban rigger that's 12 floating houses designed by a danish architect engles as a very passionate doesn't shy away from some greater vision he has his idea of a floating city for 10000 people in regions threatened by climate change what looked a pretty amazing that what our guts for the future melissa holroyd fascinating stuff thank you very much. now in 100 german must reads a book by your. father who was a great of the beach office of the sixty's and seventy's like jack kerouac and william burroughs and he lived his life on the edge indeed at different times in his life he was a heroin addict and a drunk just like the empty hero in his novel rule material so he knows what he's writing about is david leavitt with.

first page finished just a few 100 more before i can call myself a novelist i guess but where you get a look at this snazzy typewriter back in the sixty's nothing's said take me seriously i'm a writer quite like this baby. and . how they would be a writer if you weren't so busy being a drug addict use the antihero in raw material by. the end has artist but he lived in the attic of an estimable hotel where they pump themselves for cocaine heroin and opium to fuel their habit they cheat and steal how he even pons his treasure typewriter. i got another kick to the stomach when i was lying outside so this was the pavement i tasted plenty worse but i didn't want to get used to it either i

looked for my glasses until i realized that i was holding them i put them back on close up this pavement looked interesting there was even a croc running through the asphalt and through the crack a blade of grass was growing if that's the case i told myself you can get up to. heroin and becomes a drinker you find his place in bars all the while holding on to his dream of writing honest books about real life. the real life how do you. york follows our diet 3 years after raw material came out he was drunk walked onto a highway and was hit by a truck this book is his legacy intense real raw what follows it describes in the raw material is life his own life you've never read a book like this one. sounds

good the british photographer a mountain is a chronic age his projects are humorous yet sociological look at society his photos are original and entertaining and shows the quirks and idiosyncrasies of normal life there's a retrospective of his work at the moment in total golf here in germany so he visited some a lot more gardens there beforehand to photograph some of the onus and has included the results in his exhibition. say you. must wonder at that it's and i was skeptical with him being a star photographer but he had barely walked in and that disappeared an honest answer to what is good suspect it's of us he's totally uncomplicated and he just loves taking photos of nothing we just weren't allowed to laugh at 40 photographs

people how they are the way we too look exactly no make up no fancy clothes it's just. that we're going to show you as you all so i think in the end. what is the best solution for you i mean why pretend you'll something else. yes i think to be a proper dog or you could be obsessed i like obsession you know i'm obsessed myself and i look for other people who are obsessive because my favorite subject matter. martin pa made his name in the 1980 s. with these images in the rundown seaside resort of new brighton near liverpool he captured moments from the summer holidays of the working classes daily life in the sachin era. next he turned his camera on the middle and upper classes documented in the habits and quotes of his fellow britons with a heightened sense of situational comedy.

cause traveled the world documenting the idiosyncrasies of ordinary folks in technicolor. wrinkled spots in large pools extra pounds sparing eye of his camera catches everything to my. feet. i don't know why you think it's being me is just showing people as they are. trying to protect the world of propaganda. which is what we're mostly up against you know but we all see the floor. for human that's probably a truck should be a cuban with were floored i mean why not celebrate that no one is perfect. and also house funded is an image he's had his picture taken or eyes of the world in every possible cheesy set up always in the same unsmiling pose. the results

compiled in his book which i portray serve as a parody of portraying snaps in an age this will se. he also has an uncanny ability to blend into the scenery that announcing to just speak a photograph was couples without their feeling observed. it's time for dusseldorf to look from and told us to admire the results of paul's work these photos off far off from the still as they often know satirical commentary on are not meant gardening all german perfectionism instead they're an affectionate tribute to their subjects could difficult for be mellowing with age finally martin joins the subjects of his labors for a group photo it's clear the photographer can blend in in front of the camera as well as behind it. i do like his photography always

touched with a sense of humor and showing our way the human race really small mohsen pa and everything else on the show on our website of course with d.w. dot com slash culture and lots of all the topics they all as well that's all from pots and culture from our thanks very much watching joins again so bot.

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