Arkup #1 is a luxury houseboat that was created by a visionary company called Waterstudio and completed earlier this year. It’s this amazing two-story home that just floats and remains unbothered not even by winds of up to 155 mph. The house is also pretty massive in addition to being incredibly stable on the water...
Tiny Nautical-Styled Floating House In Vancouver
Big style can be effortless in a small living space, like in this floating home just outside Vancouver’s central business district. Its picture-perfect nautical boat look includes port hole windows and bright red and blue accents. The walls inside are white, while the floors and ceilings are covered with warm woods. Inside, several thematic pieces of...
Floating Watervilla Weesperzijde In Amstel River
Half of this floating house by +31 Architects is submerged below the waterline of Amsterdam’s river Amstel, while the other opens out to a buoyant terrace. Watervilla Weesperzijde is connected to the quay by a wooden bridge, which flexes as the residence rises and falls with the tide. Sliding glass doors added to the lounge...
Floating Cedar House On The Side Of Lake Huron
Named Floating House by MOS Architects, the two-storey building provides a summer residence on the Canadian side of Lake Huron. Thanks to its pontoon base, the house adapts to the changing water levels of the lake, which rise and fall throughout the year. Externally the building is clad in a rainscreen of cedar planks. Living...
Exbury Egg Acquatic Pod For Ultra-Minimal Living On Water
Artist Stephen Turner designed a studio space as a personal experiment in minimal life – an egg-shaped floating home and studio space. First, he thought it to be an installation but now he uses it as a yearlong home. The entire home is wrapped in wood; the outside of the egg is mostly unadorned, with...
H2Office – Small Floating Prefab Office
The H2Office was originally conceived as a floating office unit. Although its design is quite versatile so it could be remodeled and used in many other ways. It could become a living place, a meeting/working area, a play room, a dining area and so on. As the office the unit provides enough space for one...
Modern Floating Home on Lake Union
This home is locate in the region where building floating houses is a long time tradition – Lake Union, Seattle. Even though it is surrounded by other similar houses it has much more modern design and good look. The site is very small but architects managed to create great place as for living as for...
House on Floating Land – HYE RO HUN by IROJE KIMHYOMAN
This site is located in borderline between city and mountain. Urban landscape and mountains views could be seen all together. The house entrance is a big transparent gate door with attached to it inner court. Two wooden boxes which are consisted of duplex room are laid on landscaped architectural mass which contain living room and...
Futuristic Skew House
The site is located 10 minutes or less by walk from the nearest station in Toride-city, Ibaraki. Before building there wasn’t any flat surface so architect mission was to build the house on the cliff. Mr. Ueda has managed to build the extraordinary futuristic house in so hard conditions. The Skew house is a set...
Small Cabin Up The Lake
Small floating cabins on lakes aren’t a new idea nowadays. It’s a great retrieve place to spend summer and sunny weekends there. What could be better than clean nature and peaceful water around you? Float cabins are a big part of Coastal British Columbia history. On Powell Lake, float cabins were inexpensive hunting and fishing...