The Dutch have fought their marshy surroundings with clever engineering since the country's inception, and we've seen some impressive "floating architecture" from DuraVermeer and WaterStudio. Now that global warming is fanning the flame: melting ice-caps and raising sea levels, more and more Dutch designers are getting into amphibious architecture. Builder Hans van de Beek's amphibious houses are an obvious yet genius solution to rising water levels. He explains; "They are pretty much just regular houses, the only difference is that when the water rises, they rise."
Monday, September 03, 2007
AMPHIBIOUS HOUSES FOR RISING WATER LEVELS
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This is likely to be just as successful, in the long-term, as rebuilding those parts of New Orleans that are below sea-level.
In other words, not successful at all in the long run, based on rising sea levels and greater violence of hurricanes as global warming begins to really take hold and affect the weather by creating an increased frequency of and far more energetic, powerful storms.
Yeah ... these houses are liable to wind up as ill-fated climatic amusement park rides.
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