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Climate change is redefining the rules by which we live and at a pace we never expected. Because of rising sea level, several areas of the globe are in danger of vanishing from the map, disappearing under water. Society must adapt and maybe, one day, live in floating houses…
Adapting to Climate Change With Floating Houses? Read Full Article, Science Daily
Floating Ecopolis: Lillypads, by Vincent Callebaut
A Floating City that Survives the Ebb and Flow of Shifting Tides, Inhabitat
A Bangkok-based architecture firm recently unveiled plans for a self-sustaining floating city that can thrive with the ebb and flow of rising tides. Dubbed “A Post Diluvian Future”, the “wetropolis” allows Bangkok to live with natural flooding instead of resisting it while creating a homeostasis that detoxifies the region’s polluted waters.
