Essay: Building for High Water: Architectural Approaches to Flood Risk

 - Mark Kammerbauer, Nicola Borgmann

Due to climate change floods will increase in frequency and flood disasters will lead to greater damages. Architects and urban planners are required to rethink their approach: If dykes or levees no longer offer reliable protection, a new culture of building by and living with the water is necessary.

Essay: Building for High Water: Architectural Approaches to Flood Risk
To float or not to float? Marlies Rohmer Architecten designed 75 floating houses in IJburg near Amsterdam. © Luuk Kramer