If the river level rises to flood stage, the house and the foundation float up with the water level. You see, Smits' foundation actually sits on the river bottom.
I mean, you poke a hole, and you're going to have water come in. We are in an enclosed basement with a low ceiling, and the Maas River is all around us. "This is underwater," she says when we get there. I ask her if I can see her home's foundation. "So it's big enough for us."īut then I make an odd tour request. "We are two of us, me and my husband," Smits says. A living room faces the river stairs lead to a bedroom in back and to a master bedroom above the living room. It has the look of a typical split-level house. If I had to pick one adjective, I'd pick perky. We want to see the inside of one of these houses.įinally, we find someone who is home: Mariana Smits. We're supposed to be visiting the house of Anne van der Molen, but we can't seem to find hers. They have a nautical feel, with curved lines and colored wooden planking. We eventually find the driveway that takes us down to a cluster of cool-looking houses along the river. It's a house that can float because it has a unique foundation. We're going to see a lady who owns a floating house. On a grey day in November, we head to a town called Maasbommel on the Maas River. It could be the sea it could be a river it could be a canal. With the exception of the major highways, it feels like you can't drive more than a mile or so in the Netherlands without running into water. Holland has made other countries begin to question, too. But instead of cursing their fate, architects are designing a new Holland that will float on water, and the Dutch government seems willing to try out the scheme. The inevitable rise in sea level that comes with climate change is going to make it increasingly difficult to control flooding in low-lying Holland. In the spring you can start building a house.An illustration of a proposed apartment complex designed by Waterstudio.Īrchitects in Holland are showing the rest of the world a way of turning adversity into opportunity. Ideally, the Foundation should stand the winter. When the Foundation is completely dry, remove the formwork, and give basis to settle the month.To do this the first day it dipped every 4-5 hours the next day to three times per day, on the third day two times. During drying to make sure that the top layer does not dry up and not with excessive. This usually requires 4-5 weeks, during this time, the concrete becomes solid. Then the concrete is rammed to the appearance of a brilliant wet layer and aligned. For a pouring plate not spend more than an hour. The concrete mortar is poured in the stacked reinforcement layers of 15 cm, each layer should be carefully leveled and compacted. It is produced simultaneously, so the solution must be booked very quickly or mix their own.
For more massive structures used rod of 10-12 mm, while the transverse rods are knit together with wire. Where would be the load-bearing walls, reinforce with metal rods.
For small buildings the reinforcement is produced with the help of wire mesh with a cell of 10-15cm.
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