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Summary
Sluishuis, which means lock house in English, is a double cantilever structure that forms a bridge between IJburg and Amsterdam city centre.
It has 442 carbon-neutral flats, a public green roof garden with a rooftop walkway, bird and recreational islands, jetties for boats, catering facilities and a two-storey underground car park below water level.
The building forms part of the IJburg development, a residential neighbourhood under construction to the east of the city centre on artificial islands reclaimed form the IJmeer lake.
The sustainability of Sluishuis is an integral part of the project – it generates more energy than it consumes, thanks to high-performance insulation (with aluminium façade), triple glazing and heat recovery on the ventilation systems and wastewater. Energy consumption is further reduced by a heat and cold storage (CHS) system in the ground for heat and cooling in combination with a connection to the district heating system for peak times. The remaining energy consumption for heating, heat pumps, ventilation, and LED lighting is compensated by 2,200 sqm of solar panels, to which an entire floating island adjacent to the project is dedicated.
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