Koen Olthuis (m):
 
What our firm does here 
 
is actually design 
 
all kinds of things,
 
design housing types, 
 
which are the same 
 
as on land, only now 
 
with floating foundations.
 
Koen Olthuis (m): 
 
So we started 
 
with very small villas, 
 
and that became bigger 
 
and bigger row houses, 
 
two under one roof, 
 
floating apartment 
 
complexes, floating roads, 
 
floating gardens, 
 
really all you need 
 
to construct a city. 
Halo creative viewers 
 
and welcome to 
 
Golden Age Technology 
 
on Supreme Master 
 
Television. 
 
Today, in part one 
 
in a two-part series, 
 
we meet 
 
an exceptional architect 
 
from the Netherlands, 
 
whose visionary work 
 
offers answers for those 
 
low-lying urban areas 
 
facing rising sea levels. 
 
Koen Olthuis was featured 
 
in TIME Magazine's 
 
2007 list of the world's 
 
most influential people, 
 
as his work has gained 
 
global interest with 
 
large metros everywhere 
 
having to adapt 
 
to climate change and 
 
burgeoning populations. 
 
His firm, 
 
Waterstudio.NL,
 
is behind a unique form 
 
of water-based 
 
architectural development 
 
that places 
 
homes, buildings 
 
and other structures 
 
on water by using 
 
floating foundations. 
 
Mr. Olthuis studied
 
architecture 
 
and industrial design 
 
at the Delft University 
 
of Technology in 
 
the Southern Netherlands 
 
and has worked 
 
with dedication for years 
 
to help find solutions 
 
to his country's 
 
ongoing challenge 
 
of living alongside 
 
encroaching water.
 
For more details
 
on Koen Olthuis,
 
please visit 
 
www.Waterstudio.nl