The Netherlands builds floating houses, dancing with the water

In response to rising sea levels, the Netherlands builds floating houses

Ko Wen-je said he wants to turn Shezi Island into something like Amsterdam in the Netherlands, because with so much flooding, the Netherlands has always had a disaster awareness, and how to coexist and live together with water - let's look at examples from abroad.

The Netherlands is now building floating communities, precisely out of worry that in the future sea levels will keep rising and the Netherlands will flood, but as long as houses, parking lots or an entire city can float like boats, losses of life and property can be reduced. The Netherlands' leading floating house architect takes you through sketching out the future blueprint of a waterborne world.

Affected by warming, global sea levels are rising, and flooding has become more and more frequent in the Netherlands, where half the country's land area lies below sea level. Quite a few designers have begun researching and designing "floating houses" to create residential communities on the water, and this kind of concept is becoming more and more common around the world. If warming is not improved now, life in a "water world" may well gradually become the norm in the future.

Floating house architect in the Netherlands: "How should this be done? There will be a lot of rainfall over there, channel the rainwater into this area, so the houses over there are very safe. This side is a large lake, about 2.5 km long and several hundred meters wide; right now it is dry ground, but afterwards we will channel water over, with a water depth of 1.8 m."