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tag: design
Retro-fitting
Retro-fitting design and planning practices to work with what we have.
Tagged design, planning, Retro-fitting
Design with floods in mind
As each new development is designed, design in mind with electricity and major infrastructure i.e.- plant rooms for buildings on middle or top floors instead of underground car parks and schools and hospitals on hills or higher ground. (flood markers … Continue reading
Tagged design, hills, Infrastructure
Floating boat house
To flood-proof our houses we could build boat bottoms on all our houses so that if it floods, the houses will just float.
Tagged boat, bottom, building, design, floating, house, house boat, resilient homes, schoolofideas
High and dry on stilts
To flood proof Queensland we could build houses that have extendable stilts/stumps. This means that as the water rises we can just increase the height of our buildings through an automatic system by the press of a button so that … Continue reading
Tagged design, extendable, flood, high, house, housing, hydraulics, protection, raising ground level, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, stilts, stumps, water
G r a s p i n g R e s i l i e n c e
The design here is based primarily around ideas of fluid terrain, flood resilience, the tidal nature and natural systems. Tidal influences relate to the reintroduction of the New Farm Creek so that any water levels above the standard high tide … Continue reading
Solar Tower Project
I am constructing a house that I designed to cope with flooding among other things. My main structural concerns were wind, flooding, and soil instability and movement, followed by fire and termite resistance. The lowest level will be sacrificial non … Continue reading
Design for Flood-Prone Houses
Design for flood-prone houses with examples built in NSW (with or without refuge). Design accommodates impact of still water or a moving floodway, is resistant to lateral forces and uses flood- compatible materials.
Tagged building construction, design, materials, resilienthomes
The Annex
The Annex is a lightweight beach house that was designed as a weekender for a city based family. The site is 100 m from the beach and faces west over a tea tree coloured creek. The local council required the … Continue reading
Tagged Architecture, beach house, design, flood, materials, pods, removable, resilienthomes, semipermanent