Sep 21, 2012
The wave of floods that hit Britain in April focused attention, once again, on the vulnerability of homes in low-lying areas. Against a background of news images of householders baling out their homes, there were renewed calls to ban all building of new houses in flood-prone districts.
But what if a house could simply rise and fall with the waters? That’s the vision of Baca Architects, designers of the UK’s first ‘amphibious house’, which has just received planning permission for a site near Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, on the banks of the Thames.