Article source: NIO architecten

It’s a well-known adage that the knife cuts both ways. What this means is that each advantage has its disadvantage, that there’s a drawback to everything. This makes it an unanswerable platitude that results in a great deal of apathy. Better than a knife that cuts both ways is a knife with two blades, which share the same handle and where each blade has a single cutting edge. This is known as a twin blade. It allows you to cut two different things at a single stroke or to facilitate two dissimilar functions – or characters – at one and the same time. And that’s the idea behind the houseboat.

Image Courtesy © NIO Architect

• Architects: NIO architecten
• Project: TWIN BLADE
• Location: Amsterdam
• Address: Jaagpad 17, Amsterdam
• Design: NIO Architects
• Client: Private
• Contractors: Het Waterhuys (basic structure)
• Design team: Maurice Nio and Arek Seredyn
• Start design: September 2009
• Completion: 2012
• Construction costs: €400,000
• Software used: AutoCAD

(more…)