Thursday, August 30, 2012

New response/ideas to constant flooding

                    
                              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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