New Design for Solar-Powered Houseboat
With the help of Crossboundaries, an innovative design firm with offices in Beijing and Frankfurt, a German woman named Marianne Fries has developed her 49-foot houseboat into a home on the water that shows what can be done within a limited space. Fries worked in China for many years before returning to Berlin a few years ago. She also was friends with Binke Lenhardt, a co-founder of Crossboundaries. For exercise, she joined a rowing club in Berlin, and then decided she wanted to spend more time on the water. In 2020, she bought a five-year-old, solar-powered houseboat there, and decided…