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Archive for September, 2007
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Al Jazeera’s Hamish MacDonald travels to the Carteret Atoll off Papua New Guinea. It’s home to 1,000 people but slowly their homeland is disappearing under the sea.
AMPHIBIOUS HOUSES FOR RISING WATER LEVEL by Kate
The Dutch have fought their marshy surroundings with clever engineering since the country’s inception, and we’ve seen some impressive “floating architecture” from DuraVermeer and WaterStudio. Now that global warming is fanning the flame: melting ice-caps and raising sea levels, more and more Dutch designers are getting into amphibious architecture. Builder Hans van de Beek’s amphibious houses are an obvious yet genius solution to rising water levels. He explains; “They are pretty much just regular houses, the only difference is that when the water rises, they rise.”
Read entire article here: AMPHIBIOUS HOUSES FOR RISING WATER LEVELS
hat tip to Mac Tonnies PostHumanBlues blog –
