#floating house

[keepingitneutral]

'Blatto' Houseboat, Lake Union, Seattle, Washington,

Designed by Studio GO’C

[moodboardmix]

Pura Vida, Portage Bay, Seattle, USA,

Courtesy: Hoshide Wanzer Architects + Interiors,

Builder: Dyna Builders,

Photographs by Andrew Giammarco

[whereifindsanity]

[ultimatepad]

The Tidal Array (Italy, 2077)

Courtesy: 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

[thejawsdevour]

Cheung Pooi Yip (Malaysian) - Floating House (watercolor, 2002)

[utwo]

House Boat Sausalito California

© R.Barnes

[galleryofart]

The Mississippi

Artist: John Steuart Curry (American, 1897–1946)

Date: 1935

Medium: Tempera on canvas mounted on panel

Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Description

An African American family and their bedraggled cat cling to the roof of a house adrift in the muddy turbulence of flood water. The father's raised hands beseeching divine aid are silhouetted against a break of light, suggesting hope for their dire situation. The artist, John Steurat Curry, like many of his fellow American Scene artists, believed in the rural family as the bedrock of American values. This painting is based on a drawing by the artist whose title, “Mississippi Noah,” refers to a flood that plagued the Mississippi Valley in 1927. Covering 27,000 square miles, displacing over 200,000 African Americans and enlarging the Mississippi River to a width of 60 miles below Memphis, this flood was one of the most destructive in the nation's history. It was, however, only one of the many floods that plagued rural populations in the 1930s.

[mensministry]

"La Balsanera," Babahoyo, Ecuador,

Several centuries ago, the Babahoyo River in Ecuador, with its floating houses, was one of the main storage and rest points on the trade route taken by merchants and farmers between the cities of Guayaquil and Quito.

Today, the river is no longer used as a trade route, and the number of floating structures has fallen from 200 to 25, putting them at risk of extinction, despite being recognized as intangible human heritage in Ecuador.

Natura Futura and Juan Carlos Bamba