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Posted by casimira on Oct 13, 2009, 1:06pm

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/06/brad....ght-foundation/

Haven't seen this yet but plan to real soon. Maybe this weekend.

Posted by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2009, 3:05pm

Most interesting new application of a very old idea. Many piers around the world are built that way. The first photo in this thread by Hwinpp shows one, and in the same thread there are pictures of houses using that concept.

My question about the Inhabitat house is - what happens to the gas lines when the house breaks away? Perhaps the fact that the broken portion would be under water would neutralize any danger?

Posted by fumobici on Oct 13, 2009, 3:39pm

There are flex pipe and/or self-closing snap fittings that would easily handle the gas supply under those circumstances.

Posted by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2009, 4:30pm

Thanks, Fumobici. I was sort of obsessing about that.

Posted by fumobici on Oct 13, 2009, 5:50pm

They probably wouldn't meet existing code though.

Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2010, 5:25pm

Because The Saints are going to the Super Bowl, my son has been sending me links from N.O. sources. That's how I happened across more info about the floating house, and started looking around for other examples.

This site: http://morphopedia.com/projects/float-house has very complete drawings & specs.

This video is not very good quality, but is the only one I can find:
http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/20...._maynes_fl.html

Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2011, 5:31pm

This "Ark" is designed to accommodate up to 10,000 people and to withstand various
disasters of "Biblical" proportions.

article: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-new....exander-remizov

excellent slide show: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,737887,00.html

more details, plus some nay-saying: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/....rising-seas.php

Posted by gertie on Jan 24, 2011, 4:51am

Interesting concept, and so is the house that floats when there is a flood although hm. What about stuff that bangs into the floating house? That ark looks very interesting. At least it has a lot of plants.

Posted by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2011, 6:42am

Having the 'need' for houses that float in an emergency implies that they are being built in places where they don't belong in the first place. In certain parts of the world, people do not have a choice, but the 'Brad Pitt' project looks the idle splurge of a rich country.

There are floating houses all over the world, but the only people who live in them make their living out of the water, which was certainly not the case of most of the people in the 9th ward.


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