Floating house
As floods, heavy rainfall continue to be the norm, new city designs must be made to adapt to the ennvironment.
Some of the ideas mentioned in BBC/click are the following:
l. Floating homes (ideas from Netherlands)
2. Floating streets
3. Floating cities
Architect's response to constant flooding/climate change Some projects in the pipeline at Netherlands include: floating greenhouse, floating prison, maritime housing estate. Bangkok which just experienced a great flood is also joining these initiatives.
How about Manila/PHL? Will this part of the floating initiatives?
The city of Angkor Wat is supposed to be a floating city. The Angkor Wat area is subject to flooding from constant monsoon rains. That it failed as a city is another story. But the structure exists up to now
Floating community
Floating homes in Vietnam
Floating city concept
The house on stilts at the coastal towns and cities in Mindanao are such an example of floating houses.
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