Ningde City in southeast China’s Fujian province is home thousands of fishermen who have been living on their floating houses for generations.
As the climate crisis continues to exacerbate sea-level rise, designers are considering ways that we can live on water.
Homeowners Wouter Valkenier and Mijke de Kok, both architects, cobbled together salvaged material from multiple sources to fit out their home.
United by a jetty that snakes around the floating community, Schoonschip's smart houses are all unique from one another, with each house...
World Architecture Community News - Marshall Blecher and Studio Fokstrot unveil 'parkipelago' floating islands for Copenhagen
It was Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma'dan, or 'Arabs of the marsh', lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. These little-known architectur
The most populous city in Africa is also one of its most vulnerable to inundation. To stay above water, everything from its architecture to its transport may have to change.
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Ningde City in southeast China’s Fujian province is home thousands of fishermen who have been living on their floating houses for generations.
A visionary plan for a floating city in Nigeria proposed by architecture and urban design firm NLÉ.
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Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi's Makoko Floating School will be featured in Al Jazeera's 'Rebel Architecture.'
An aid-funded floating school is a beacon of hope for the Makoko fishing community in Nigeria.
Houseboats and floating homes that are sunning on lakes, canals, and bays look amazingly attractive, inviting you to try the Green living style
Tonle Sap Lake is huge, it is world's most productive body of fresh water and listed as Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. Many communities live on edge of the lake and depends on its ecosystem for their living. On this tour you will take a wooden boat cruise to visit Kampong Phluk fishing village and flooded forest and learn & witness ecosystem of this lake and life style of the local people in this village. You will also witness seasonal agricultural activities like cricket catching, rice planting, and harvesting, smoking fish, fish paste (prohoc making), and duck farming. (Suggested visit period is between July to February).
Completed in 2023 in Samborondón, Ecuador. Tropical pile-dwellings and floating greenhouse for floodable communities. The floating orchard is conceived as micro floating and piled equipment...
Dries Kreijkamp designed the bulbous Bolwoningen apartment community in the 1970s, and remained convinced that the spherical home trend would catch on, until his death in 2014.
The most populous city in Africa is also one of its most vulnerable to inundation. To stay above water, everything from its architecture to its transport may have to change.
Earlier this year, UK-based Eleven Magazine launched their inaugural design ideas competition, "Cambodia 2015: P...
Moored in a flooded gravel pit off the M6, Adam Khan Architects' Brockholes Wetland Nature Reserve visitor centre forms a gateway to nature
Norway's floating islands, unusual masses of soil and spongy plant life, support a wide variety of species.
Vincent Callebaut Architectures designed the OCEANIUMS project which is a biomimetic generation of floating and sustainable stadiums...
It was Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma'dan, or 'Arabs of the marsh', lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. These little-known architectur
