Floating Island: Self-Sufficient Home Produces Food & Power
Powered by solar panels and sustained by a half-acre plot of farmland, these 12 connected buoyant platforms together form an autonomous off-the-grid dwelling for the couple that built ...
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Tsunami Ark: Handmade Flood-Proof Floating Wood Capsule
Former Facebook and PayPal employee Chris Robinson is two years into an epic backyard project rising behind his home in Palo Alto: a structure dubbed the Tsunamiball. A veteran of Silicon ...
Amphibious Architecture: Foundations Float Above Floods
Floodwaters rise, drench homes, then recede, leaving disaster in their wake - a temporary change renders many structures permanently uninhabitable. But what if houses could ride out the storms, ...
