Worried about rising water? Get a home that floats
Rising sea levels are threatening the homes and cities of people around the world in an alarmingly urgent way, so designers and architects are under a lot of pressure to come up with workable solutions. Waterstudio has come up with the ingenious idea of homes that, when faced with rising water, can detach from their foundations and float. Futuristic houseboats, if you will.
There are different designs but right now some families are already living in homes that are sitting on the bottom of a river in the Netherlands. If (when) the river levels rise the entire houses will break loose and start floating -- all the while remaining connected to electricity and sewers via flexible pipes.
WOW.
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