With flat bottoms, they rest on the ground when the tide is the lowest, yet rise up to 15 feet at high tide. Numerous houseboats used for permanent occupancy exist at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California that do the same thing. The concept of a floating house is reasonable for flood-prone lands, but this particular version leaves something to be desired.
Mayne says about the house and design, “Hopefully it never gets used. Mayne and Morphosis wanted to retain the look of the existing community and make it more accessible to people who didn’t want to or couldn’t get up a huge flight of stairs. There is also a battery backup in the home with enough capacity to power crucial appliances for up to three days.Īs with all Make It Right homes, the Float House is built with environmentally friendly materials, but in contrast to the other homes, this one is built on the ground level rather than 12 feet above the ground. While it has never been tested in real life flood conditions, Morphosis conducted extensive computer simulations and modeled it to withstand Hurricane Katrina-like conditions. Anchored to its site by two guideposts the home could sustain 12 foot high flood waters. During hurricane flooding conditions, the home could break away from its electrical lines, gas and plumbing and rise with the flood waters. He and his team designed a house that was essentially built on a chassis of polystyrene foam and covered with glass-reinforced concrete. Thom Mayne, founder of Morphosis and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, wanted to build a home that could survive through hurricane flooding as well fit in with the surrounding homes.
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