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tag: high
Don’t build in flood able areas
Don’t build in flood able areas. Build high. High rise to allow for floodable floods. De-centralize.
Tagged build, de-centralize, Flood able, high
Wave Roof
To flood proof Queensland… we could build houses out of cement and make inside roof the living place so that the flood won’t reach that spot. We can also make the roof shaped like a wave so that roof will … Continue reading
Tagged cement, concrete, high, living, materials, reach, resilience, resilienthomes, robust, roof, schoolofideas, shaped, wave
We can’t flood proof – but we can redesign houses!
I don’t think we can flood proof Queensland because we can’t control the rain. I think we can just stop the damage floods cause. So, we need to build our houses on a big block of cement. This will make … Continue reading
Tagged away, block, can't, cement, construction, damage, flood, footing, foundation, high, materials, proof, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, slab, strong, wash, water
Important things high in the sky
To flood proof Queensland… we need to build our important buildings like houses on hills. The water won’t get the houses up on high land
Tagged buildings, cities, flood plains, high, hill, house, important, natural waterways, no, policy, protection, reclaiming land, resilient homes, schoolofideas, water, zoning
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