Emergency housing

[Spencer W Hunter]

A while back, I proposed rebuilding New Orleans dwellings on floating
foundations.  Now there is an article by Barbara Kreisler, pp.63-367, in
the May 2006 issue of the journal _Urban Land_ (ISSN 0042-0891,
http://www.uli.org/Content/NavigationMenu/DiscoverULI/LeadersinOurField/Publications/UrbanLand/CurrentIssue/Urban_Land_Current_I1.htm
) entitled "Homes That Float," detailing designs from the
Netherlands--which is largely below sea level--and elsewhere that are
based on this very same principle.  There is one particularly interesting
illustration of a "prefab hybrid floating space frame system" designed "to
be a refuge during a catastrophic climate event, such as the flooding a
city like New Orleans always anticipates."

Spencer Hunter, Tucson, AZ
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