To the say the least, the pandemic shook up our notions of home, and some took the opportunity to float some new ideas. After being approached by a client in Berlin to refurbish a houseboat into a tiny home, Beijing-based architecture studio Crossboundaries set out to explore the limitations of life on the go. “Envisioning people living in a nomadic fashion is no longer an abstract image—it is achievable,” says Binke Lenhardt, one of the firm’s cofounders. “Simultaneously, we are debating our notions of public versus private and temporary versus permanent.” After buying a boat, Marianne, who split her time between Beijing and Berlin, wanted to create a floating home…