Float House super green house designed to float in a storm

Rebuilding the homes of flood victims is one of the most stressful jobs for any country, but why build the same kind of house built at a hilltop, near a sea? Architects worked for 2 years building a house that is designed to float and go off the grid when there is excessive flooding. Simply called Float House, it is made out of a long box, sided in fiber-cement panels with a folding, photovoltaic roof. Inside, rooms range along one wall and open onto a gallery running the house’s length. Beneath the house is a modular chassis of polystyrene foam blocks encased by glass-fiber-reinforced concrete. Inside the chassis are the house’s guts — plumbing and electrical and mechanical equipment, plus rainwater collection tanks and battery packs charged by the sun.

The Float house was designed for the Make it right foundation headed by actor Brad Pitt, for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina floods and other such victims. The house doesn’t cost more than $150,000, not too much considering its robustness.

Via [Changeobserver]