Should we be building houses that float in disaster-prone areas that we think might get flooded in the future? With warming weather, floods might increase everywhere, plus there’s the always unpredictable tropical hurricanes and typhoons that can soak cities pretty good. What if the houses just lifted up in the water?
In a little village in a faraway land, called Amur Village, there was a flood, and that flood has led to a sort of change in a lot of the architecture around there, because apparently the floods will in the future be much more common – almost a regularity.
Instead of pouring foundations and digging cellars, now its the construction of an iron pontoon, a necessary step to build lightweight houseboats.
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Here’s a bunch of houseboat styles, to give ideas to anyone considering a possible house boat of their own.
