homes that can FLOAT solve the housing crisis?
A radical new solution is being proposed to solve the housing crisis - homes that float. Designers say homes that would rise with floodwaters could be built on land otherwise deemed unsuitable because of flooding concerns.
Each home can react to flood risk because the guide piles allow the building to rise in significant flood conditions, because of the buoyant basement structure. As flood waters recede the houses resettle to their original levels.
This is hardly the first attempt to develop land vulnerable to flooding. There are 20,000 fully-floating and can-float homes already built in the Netherlands.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3623506/No-need-worry-flooding-24-new-float-homes-ready-submerged-built-edge-lake-2021.html
Back in the mid-1870s, Sacramento, California raised the level of its downtown by approximately 10 feet (3 meters) to eliminate devastating flooding. They built reinforced brick walls on downtown streets, and filled the resulting street walls with dirt. Building owners either raising their building slowly with the use of numerous screw jacks, or buried the ground floor. Thus the previous first floors of buildings became the basements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California
Each home can react to flood risk because the guide piles allow the building to rise in significant flood conditions, because of the buoyant basement structure. As flood waters recede the houses resettle to their original levels.
This is hardly the first attempt to develop land vulnerable to flooding. There are 20,000 fully-floating and can-float homes already built in the Netherlands.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3623506/No-need-worry-flooding-24-new-float-homes-ready-submerged-built-edge-lake-2021.html
Back in the mid-1870s, Sacramento, California raised the level of its downtown by approximately 10 feet (3 meters) to eliminate devastating flooding. They built reinforced brick walls on downtown streets, and filled the resulting street walls with dirt. Building owners either raising their building slowly with the use of numerous screw jacks, or buried the ground floor. Thus the previous first floors of buildings became the basements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California