Emergency housing

[Sal Cerda]

"...   The floating foundations will only create more of mess to 
clean up.  "
Actually, the floating house would not need a foundation; it would need a mooring. Given that some of the  moorings would break during a hurricane, the cleanup task would be to return the wayward houseboats to their proper locations.
In a water-located city,  property rights might translate to mooring rights
.
Wouldn't a DOME shape or full floating sphere provide some wind resistance for a home?
Sal
RoConroy at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 5/30/2006 6:27:13 PM Central Standard Time, 
shunter at u.arizona.edu writes:
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/Public
ations/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."


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