2017年12月23日 · To increase your repertoire of floating references, we have gathered here 15 projects that have been implemented directly in the waters and have the most different uses: housing, cultural,...

2024年9月16日 · With escalating land values in urban centers, there has been a growing trend to float public spaces from ground level to elevated locations, such as rooftops or podiums between buildings. From a...

2015年8月3日 · Floating architecture and design projects including schools, houses, swimming pools and concert halls, plus proposals for floating cities and villages.

2017年3月21日 · For some architects, building on land just isn’t enough of a challenge anymore, so they’ve taken their design skills to the water. These astonishing floating structures can be found everywhere...

Floating architecture refers to the construction of buildings and structures that are designed to float on the water surface. It ranges from residences to commercial buildings such as hotels and leisure centers, and even entire communities that can house hundreds of people.

The floating architecture can be made of temporary or permanent structures that float on the surface of the water using hydrophobic materials, making the structure buoyant. Archimedes’s law can also be used as a basic principle of floating architecture.

What is Floating Architecture? When numerous environmental risks, such as rising water levels and dwindling resources, arose increasingly in the last decade caused to global warming and overpopulation, the floating architecture was a clever response to the challenging circumstance.