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Sunee
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 Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:06 am Post subject: Floating house |
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How to build a floating house? what are the construction systems?
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lewiseca
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| isn't that a boat? |
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Kevin
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Sunee
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject: houseboat |
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Well, what i really need is the detail for the construction of the floating platform. i had tried to search it using various methods but it came out fruitless. Hope somebody can help.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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I added a couple of words to the search above, based on your clarification, and in a couple of clicks got to this:
There's probably a lot more out there to find. |
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P.C.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:40 am Post subject: Fake Houseboats |
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Hi
Since 29 years I lived on house boats --- not on just any floating platform with a top as a standard box house, but in real boats, converted for living able to acturly sail move to another location being build ontop of the old noble shipbuilding crafts.
Here in Copenhagen we also se these floating platforms that distance themself from the very element that make them float, omit the obvious design challances bringing somthing different than the useal boxes ,making people enjoy a walk along the waterfront.
Please don't think it can not be made different, even a floatbridge can be shaped different than just being some floatation box and a road deck, boats can be beautifull they don't need to reflect the lack of beauty in today's architecture and they can combine the need for housing with somthing that can grow into a humane inviroment, --------- still even architects think a lot of today's boxboat housing spoil the intentions of putting up an alternative ; these are not houseboats but houses on a floating platform ,and what it ruin you will not know, unless you ever experienced a real house boat.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for your perspective on this, Per! |
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Justus
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:08 am Post subject: |
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The country I live in is infested with houseboats. Most of them are single story, but the last few years the concept of floating houses is being expanded upon: there are now 3+ story boats and even project developers came in and are making entire neighbourhoods from houseboats, notably in Amsterdam (project "IJburg steigereiland") and in Leeuwarden (project "Blauwe Hart"). Right now these are small scale urban plans, 100-250 houses, but plans are already surfacing for entire suburbs and industrial and argricultural complexes floating on water.
You might use these terms in google: woonboot; villaboot; drijvende woning; waterwoning; watervilla.
The links you get back will invariably be in Dutch, but babelfish provides excellent translation.
http://world.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
http://www.steigereiland.nl/
slideshow how houseboats are made:
http://www.albatrosark.nl/Opbouw%20woonark%20diashow_bestanden/fullscreen.htm
multiple story house
http://www.bouwenmetstaal.nl/woon_7/hertz.htm[url][/url] |
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P.C.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Guess it is right that it shuld not be Houseboats I find it difficult to name a box a boat, and realy house building could show more detail. Detail as in :
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Architorture
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i did a project my sophomore year on 'mobile' homes...
i chose to do house boats of sorts... most of my research went into various floatation systems such as hulls and pontoons and such... there was also a big interest in being able to move to land if necessary, so i looked at amphibious systems like hover crafts and various ways of dry docking ships and barges...
something that you should look into that is pretty interesting is house boats in china... there are entire communities of these converted fishing vessels that will migrate up and down the rivers with the seasons...
my final product was a 'suburb of floating villas' that were intended to migrate throughout the great lakes and the mississippi...
there is tons of stuff out there, just try to be creative in your searching |
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VWall
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| Sunee, I have seen lots of houseboats, and all were different. Many people have bought garbage scows and built large houses on them, even with grass and shrubs. Others have modified ordinary boats any way they could. The commercial builders usually use tanks of stainless steel or sometimes fiberglass to make a floating platform, and then build something like an ordinary trailer house on top. What you do will depend on how much money you have to spend and what you can find for that price. |
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mucco99
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: float home |
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I am writing from Yellowknife Northwest Territories, Canada. I have 80 - 55 gallon drums at my disposal with with to build a floating platform to serve as a foundation for a floating home i wish to build. I am very keen on obtaining any or all information available on designing and constructing this floating platform.
Kind regards'
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nanrehvasconez
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