reblogging architecture

tracking the story, or who's blogging whom

I found it first on eyebeam reblog
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/

reblogged from we make money not art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007141.php

cited from boing boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/04/floating_houses_rise.html

we make money not art cite
Via Archinect < Der Spiegel.

and archinect cites arts and letters daily
http://aldaily.com/

who cite der spiegel by linking to it
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,377050,00.html

and the original aticle on the english version of the der speigel site states
Translated from the German by Gareth Davies

and the article?

The dutch have designed houses capable of floating in the event of a flood.

"There are 37 houses strung along this branch of the Maas like a row of beads. At first glance, they seem quite unremarkable. Two storeys high, semicircular metal roofs and yellow, green or blue facades - hardly any clues let on that these are The Netherlands' first amphibious houses. The cellar, in this case, is not built into the earth. Instead, it is on a platform - and is much more than a mere storage room. The hollow foundation of each house works in the same way as the hull of a ship, buoying the structure up above water. To prevent the swimming houses from floating away, they slide up two broad steel posts - and as the water level sinks, so they sink back down again. "

The idea of a floating platform on poles is not new. I've seen it used around northern rivers NSW.

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