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"Sunken Villages" is a project by the Canadian aerial art photographer Louis Helbig. Wonderful pictures of buried villages due to industry development done with interviews of the inhabitants.<br><a href="http://sunkenvillages.ca/home/" target="_blank">http://sunkenvillages.ca/home/</a>	Floating house in Huron Lake by the office MOS (a collective of architects and designers), USA.<br><a href="http://www.mos-office.net/" target="_blank">http://www.mos-office.net/</a>	Sahuina floating island, Titicaca lake, Peru.<br><a href="http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html" target="_blank">http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html</a> (written in French)
"Floating school" by NLE Architects, 2012, Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria.<br><a href="http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/" target="_blank">http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/</a>	Project "Floating eternity cemetery" by BREAD studio, Hong-Kong, China.<br><a href="http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html" target="_blank">http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html</a>	"Boathouse" by MHM Architects in Seeboden, Austria.<br><a href="http://www.mhm-architects.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mhm-architects.com/</a>
Maxime Aumont, architect (and poet) works on ephemeral structures. <br>Interested in Bellastock's approach, he'll probably lead some workshops or lectures in conjunction with our current project.	Sailboat "Plastiki" by David de Rothschild. This boat made in PETE (12 500 plastic bottles) sailed 15 000 km.<br><a href="http://theplastiki.com/" target="_blank">http://theplastiki.com/</a>	"Prammen" by Détours is a floating camp with facilities (stage, bar, kitchen, relaxation places), 2008.<br><a href="http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen" target="_blank">http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen</a>
"Floating houses for flood-risk areas" by Finot Group.<br><a href="http://www.finot.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.finot.com/index.html</a> (written in French)	"Amphibious House" by Baca Architects in the Thames River, United Kingdom.<br><a href="http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house" target="_blank">http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house</a>	The "Manta Resorts Underwater Hotel" in the eastern coast of Africa by the swedish company Genberg Underwater Hotels.<br><a href="http://underwaterroom.com/" target="_blank">http://underwaterroom.com/</a>
"ARK" floating hotel and group housing project by Remistudio, Alexandre Remizov.<br><a href="http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm" target="_blank">http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm</a>	"Amazon Research Center + Amazon Research Module" by Estudio Arkiz on the Amazon in Brazil, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.arkiz.com.br/" target="_blank">http://www.arkiz.com.br/</a>	"Floating gardens", a project for a spa and floating gardens by Studio Noach, Anne Holtrop.<br><a href="http://www.studionoach.com/" target="_blank">http://www.studionoach.com/</a>
"Monolith" by Jean Nouvel for the national exhibit "Instant and Eternity" at Morat in Switzerland, 2002.<br><a href="http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm" target="_blank">http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm</a> (written in French)	"Adamant, Esquirol hospital" by Seine Design, Gérard Ronzatti in Port de la Rapée in Paris, France, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en" target="_blank">http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en</a>	"IBA dock" by Slawik architekten in Hamburg, Germany, 2010.<br><a href="http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2" target="_blank">http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2</a>
"Kaluga floating sauna" by the Finnish firm Rintala Eggertsson Architects for the Russian Landscape Objects festival.<br><a href="http://www.ri-eg.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ri-eg.com/</a>	The "Swimming Cities of Serenissima", little fleets of rafts made with waste, salvaged materials and old furniture, is currently sailing on the seas of Europe.<br><a href="http://www.swimmingcities.org/" target="_blank">http://www.swimmingcities.org/</a>	The "Waterflux" museum is an evolutive structure which interacts with its environment. Made in ice, water and wood, proposed by R&Sie(n) in Evolene, Switzerland, 2007.<br><a href="http://www.new-territories.com/" target="_blank">http://www.new-territories.com/</a>
The beaver builds dams to raise the water level to protect his burrow. Clumsy on earth, his dam allows him to reach trees and move easily by swimming thanks to the raised level of the water.<br><a href="http://www.liberation.fr/terre/2010/05/07/le-plus-grand-barrage-de-castors-decouvert-grace-a-google-earth_624882" target="_blank">http://www.liberation.fr/terre/2010/05/07/le-plus-grand-barrage-de-castors-decouvert-grace-a-google-earth_624882</a> (written in French)	The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station, it spans the Yangtze River, located in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China.<br><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178951/Three-Gorges-Worlds-powerful-dam-opens-China-gushing-water-generates-power-15-nuclear-reactors.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178951/Three-Gorges-Worlds-powerful-dam-opens-China-gushing-water-generates-power-15-nuclear-reactors.html</a>	The tomb of the emperor Tu Duc, built on stilts on the lake Luu Khiêm in Hue, Vietnam.<br><a href="http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php" target="_blank">http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php</a>
1600 fishermen, 4 floating villages live today on the Ha Long Bay. For these inhabitants "the earth is confinement, papers and problems".<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay</a>	Some examples of lakeside cities. On the left, reconstitution of the museum of Unteruhldingen. On the right, coastal shantytown housing at Hanuabada in Port Moresby.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house</a>	"Waterworld" is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kevin Reynolds from 1995.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEp382HIisE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEp382HIisE</a>
"También la lluvia" is a Spanish film directed in 2011 by Icíar Bollaín which mentionned the 2000 protest in Cochabamba, Bolivia against the water privatization.<br><a href="http://vimeo.com/43191063" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/43191063</a>	The Tanka community in southeast China is home to 7 000 fishermen, "the gypsies of the sea".<br><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451023/Chinas-Tanka-boat-peoples-floating-homes.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451023/Chinas-Tanka-boat-peoples-floating-homes.html</a>	The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives on the sea.<br><a href="http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U" target="_blank">http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U</a>
The city of Venice is built on a huge forest of stilts made of wood. The stilts vary in diameter and their length varies between 2 to 10 meters.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice</a>	The Isabelle Daëron's "Topiques" are apparatuses disconnected from the dominant water network (sewage system) and connected to a natural site to express an equilibrium between natural elements (such as rain) and daily human use.<br><a href="http://www.isabelledaeron.com/index.php?/topiques1/introduction/" target="_blank">http://www.isabelledaeron.com/index.php?/topiques1/introduction/</a>	Bernhard Edmaier is a german photographer who uses aerial photography.<br><a href="http://www.bernhard-edmaier.de/en/portfolio/wasser.html" target="_blank">http://www.bernhard-edmaier.de/en/portfolio/wasser.html</a>
The series "Absence of Water", disused swimming pools taken by the photographer Gigi Cifali.<br><a href="http://www.gigicifali.com/soho.html" target="_blank">http://www.gigicifali.com/soho.html</a>	The book "Maisons sur l'eau" (written in French) by Véronique Willemin, published by "Collection Anarchitecture".	The book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (available translated in English) by Jules Verne.
The book "Coupling, strategies for infrastructural opportunism", "Pamphlet Architecture 30" (written in English) by Infranet Lab / Lateral Office.<br><a href="http://www.infranetlab.org/" target="_blank">http://www.infranetlab.org/</a>	"Mobilo" is an installation by the team ENCORE HEUREUX, JES design and Philippe Rizzotti for "Point Éphémère" in Paris. This amphibious structure is on the water and can serve as a floating scene or a dock and on the embankment, can be a public bench.<br><a href="http://encoreheureux.org/2009/12/mobilo/" target="_blank">http://encoreheureux.org/2009/12/mobilo/</a>	Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most important artist of Land Art. He creates site-specific and integrated sculptures, reorganizes nature and lets it take over his work.<br> <a href="http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/</a>
Nils Udo and some of his installations linked with water. He is a german visual artist often linked with the Land Art movement but he wants to distance himself from it, he wants to enhance the liveliness of nature and not use it.<br><a href="http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-36.html" target="_blank">http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-36.html</a>	The dark side of consumption: the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is an area in the North Pacific Ocean where non-recycled waste, thrown away in the ocean, is gathered (bottles, plastic bags,...). Most of them are under water, so it's difficult to estimate the real size of this sheet of trash. Today, some associations and architecture projects try to stop this phenomenon.	"Lady Landfill Scyscrapers" by the serbian design team Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević and Milica Pihler is a proposal for 2011 Evolo Skyscraper Competition. Another solution to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch problem with the upper part of the structure acting as an island hosting self-sufficient human settlements.<br><a href="http://www.evolo.us/competition/lady-landfill-skyscraper/" target="_blank">http://www.evolo.us/competition/lady-landfill-skyscraper/</a>
"Estuaire" is a group of installations, an artistic adventure realized in 2007, 2009 and 2012. Thirty works took place in situ in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and along the 60km of the Loire estuary. Some of the creations are ephemeral and others set up permanently to create a tour, open to visit all year long.<br><a href="http://www.estuaire.info/fr/" target="_blank">http://www.estuaire.info/fr/</a>	Article "The most extreme weather of 2013" (written in English).<br><a href="http://science.time.com/2013/12/13/earth-wind-and-fire-the-extreme-weather-of-2013/photo/flooding-bavaria/" target="_blank">http://science.time.com/2013/12/13/earth-wind-and-fire-the-extreme-weather-of-2013/photo/flooding-bavaria/</a>	The book "Réfugiés climatiques" by the collective Argos, written in Fench in 2010. During five years, this collective met the first climatic refugees, women and men forced to live somewhere else. Nine countries, nine pit stops, to raise awareness about predictable population immigration and adaptation.
"Waterpod" is an eco-floating habitat by the New York-based artist Mary Mattingly, that evokes the works of Buckminster Fuller, Andrea Zittel, Robert Smithson & Constant Niewenhuis. This floating living sculpture demonstrates future pathways for nomads, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming. It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. "We can live more artistically and efficiently".	"Open Sailing" enounces the idea to create an international ocean station. An organic architecture that constitutes a laboratory for techno-social experiments. <br>You can watch the video which presents the project with this link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3IS94Z2RZw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3IS94Z2RZw</a>	"Chasing Ice" is an American documentary realized by Jeff Orlowski in 2012. In the film, we discover the work of photograph James Balog and his engagement against global warming. Across the film, James Balog illustrates the irremediable impacts of climate change on the landscape.<br><a href="http://www.chasingice.com/see-the-film/trailer/"target="_blank">http://www.chasingice.com/see-the-film/trailer/</a>
The Channel Tunnel is a 50,5 kilometers long underwater tunnel that connects England to France. It is composed of two tubes for trains and one smaller smaller for services. It is exploited by Eurotunnel, a Franco-british society. It is actually the tunnel with the longest underwater section in the world (followed by the Seikan tunnel connecting the Honshu and Hokkaido islands in Japan). The tunnel was inaugurated May 6th, 1994.	The traveling research station, "Haley VI" in Antarctica done by the architect Hugh Broughton was designed for 8 people to live in yearound. Built on skis, it is equiped with hydraulic pistons to foresee the rise of the snow according to the seasons.	Central wave system Pelamis. Place for experimentation in Orkney, Scotland. This system is composed of semi-emergent cylinders interconnected by hinges that transform the movements of the ocean into energy via the cylinders.<br>This link will bring you to the explanation of the different methods used to harness energy from waves:<br><a href="http://www.ecosources.info/dossiers/Pelamis_energie_vague" target="_blank">http://www.ecosources.info/dossiers/Pelamis_energie_vague</a>
A barrier against floods is a fluvial job that derives from the valve with the goal of preventing an upstream zone on a river from being flooded by the tides and the storm surges coming from the ocean. On the left, an image of the IHNC Surge Barrier in the East of New Orleans. On the right, two images of the barrier of the Tamis in London.	Even on water there are disused places. Here are some pictures of abandoned British Sea Forts built during World War Two by the British Royal Navy. The Maunsell Sea Forts still stand today, a few meters above the North sea, not far off the coast of eastern England.	"Ithaa underwater restaurant" in the Indian Ocean is the first all-glass underwater restaurant in the world, placed five meters below sea level. Surrounded by a coral reef, it offers 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views. Designed by a New Zealand firm and constructed in Singapore, the restaurant was installed in November 2004 and took 13 hours to set in place under the waves. To enjoy a meal in one of the 14 seats of the restaurant, one has to take a staircase to reach the glass tunnel.
"Jules'Undersea Lodge" is an underwater hotel located in the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon, in Key Largo, Florida. It's placed 30 feet (9 m) under water and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms. The front door is 21 feet (6,4m) under water. In the picture at the center, you can see a preparatory sketch and in the other pictures the plan and the built interior. The hotel was opened in 1986, the name comes from the novelist Jules Verne, author of "20000 leagues under the sea".	The "Woonhuis" house in Vreeland in the Netherlands by Tjaarda Mees is a renovation of an existing cottage. It's location has a view on the lake. A zinc curved roof was formed over the original house using four steel trusses. It provides greater privacy from the route and opens the house to the water. The original foundations are based on piloti in the water. The house is heated or cooled by means of a heat pump with the surface water providing a thermal buffer.	The Otter Inn (or "Utter Inn" in Swedish), a hotel created by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg is part art project and part underwater as well as floating accommodation. A single room is submerged in nine feet of water below a strangely floating traditional Swedish red house. Guests access the hotel by taking a boat from the city of Västerås, near Stockholm. They also receive an inflatable boat with their booking that they can use to visit uninhabited islands along the lake.
"Schoonschip" is an Amsterdam based building group that aims to develop and build their own sustainable floating neighborhood. In 2011, "space&matter" and "Drijvend Duurzaam Wonen" were asked to do a feasibility study with a limited budget. The main concept is based on a growing structure builds around a collective jetty. "Schoonschip" is working hard on acquiring the water plot in Van Hasseltkanaal in Amsterdam Noord, which has been declared as a DIY construction zone by the municipality.	Different works of the Copenhagen-based art collective N55, founded in 1994, in collaboration with Erling Sørvin: "Floating platform", "Modular boat" and "N55 Spaceframe". "Floating platform" is a modular construction which can be used as a floating foundation for lightweight constructions. The "N55 Spaceframe" is a low-cost, movable lightweight construction. <br>To learn more:<a href="http://www.learningsite.info/N55BOOK2004.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.learningsite.info/N55BOOK2004.pdf</a>	Project from 1990 for a linear floating city between the city of Osaka and Kyushu Island in Japan. If it were to have been done, this city would have formed a link of 400km between the city and the island. These are not high quality images, visuals of this project are hard to find, however the idea of using a floating city as a connection between multiple archipelagos seemed interesting to explore.
Examples of traditional Canadian floating houses particularly present in British Columbia (Canada).	"Anthenea" is a nomad houseboat created by architect Jean Michel Ducancelle. This circular floating habitat advocates a new form of autonomous and ecological housing that respects marine ecosystems. Converted into a 50m2 floating studio for up to six people, Anthenea offers the largest space possible for the given volume and minimum amount of materials (10,20m in diameter, 50m2 of livable space for 6 tons). Its vocation is the discovery of wildlife and marine flora.	Red Sea Star, an eccentric restaurant in Eilat, Israel, was designed by architect Sefi Kiryaty. The engineers Moshe Dreemer and Nitai Dreemer calculated the metallic structure that was then fabricated by Kadmani Metal Works. Situated 70m from the coast a part of the restaurant is submerged 5m under the sea level. Under water, the plan is shaped like a star to augment the window surface and be able to accommodate 105 people. The interior is designed as if an extension of the marine world.
Amphibious bicycle in Wuhan, China.

"Sunken Villages" is a project by the Canadian aerial art photographer Louis Helbig. Wonderful pictures of buried villages due to industry development done with interviews of the inhabitants.<br><a href="http://sunkenvillages.ca/home/" target="_blank">http://sunkenvillages.ca/home/</a>

Floating house in Huron Lake by the office MOS (a collective of architects and designers), USA.<br><a href="http://www.mos-office.net/" target="_blank">http://www.mos-office.net/</a>

Sahuina floating island, Titicaca lake, Peru.<br><a href="http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html" target="_blank">http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html</a> (written in French)

"Floating school" by NLE Architects, 2012, Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria.<br><a href="http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/" target="_blank">http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/</a>

Project "Floating eternity cemetery" by BREAD studio, Hong-Kong, China.<br><a href="http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html" target="_blank">http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html</a>

"Boathouse" by MHM Architects in Seeboden, Austria.<br><a href="http://www.mhm-architects.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mhm-architects.com/</a>

Maxime Aumont, architect (and poet) works on ephemeral structures. <br>Interested in Bellastock's approach, he'll probably lead some workshops or lectures in conjunction with our current project.

Sailboat "Plastiki" by David de Rothschild. This boat made in PETE (12 500 plastic bottles) sailed 15 000 km.<br><a href="http://theplastiki.com/" target="_blank">http://theplastiki.com/</a>

"Prammen" by Détours is a floating camp with facilities (stage, bar, kitchen, relaxation places), 2008.<br><a href="http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen" target="_blank">http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen</a>

"Floating houses for flood-risk areas" by Finot Group.<br><a href="http://www.finot.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.finot.com/index.html</a> (written in French)

"Amphibious House" by Baca Architects in the Thames River, United Kingdom.<br><a href="http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house" target="_blank">http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house</a>

The "Manta Resorts Underwater Hotel" in the eastern coast of Africa by the swedish company Genberg Underwater Hotels.<br><a href="http://underwaterroom.com/" target="_blank">http://underwaterroom.com/</a>

"ARK" floating hotel and group housing project by Remistudio, Alexandre Remizov.<br><a href="http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm" target="_blank">http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm</a>

"Amazon Research Center + Amazon Research Module" by Estudio Arkiz on the Amazon in Brazil, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.arkiz.com.br/" target="_blank">http://www.arkiz.com.br/</a>

"Floating gardens", a project for a spa and floating gardens by Studio Noach, Anne Holtrop.<br><a href="http://www.studionoach.com/" target="_blank">http://www.studionoach.com/</a>

"Monolith" by Jean Nouvel for the national exhibit "Instant and Eternity" at Morat in Switzerland, 2002.<br><a href="http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm" target="_blank">http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm</a> (written in French)

"Adamant, Esquirol hospital" by Seine Design, Gérard Ronzatti in Port de la Rapée in Paris, France, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en" target="_blank">http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en</a>

"IBA dock" by Slawik architekten in Hamburg, Germany, 2010.<br><a href="http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2" target="_blank">http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2</a>

"Kaluga floating sauna" by the Finnish firm Rintala Eggertsson Architects for the Russian Landscape Objects festival.<br><a href="http://www.ri-eg.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ri-eg.com/</a>

The "Swimming Cities of Serenissima", little fleets of rafts made with waste, salvaged materials and old furniture, is currently sailing on the seas of Europe.<br><a href="http://www.swimmingcities.org/" target="_blank">http://www.swimmingcities.org/</a>

The "Waterflux" museum is an evolutive structure which interacts with its environment. Made in ice, water and wood, proposed by R&Sie(n) in Evolene, Switzerland, 2007.<br><a href="http://www.new-territories.com/" target="_blank">http://www.new-territories.com/</a>

The tomb of the emperor Tu Duc, built on stilts on the lake Luu Khiêm in Hue, Vietnam.<br><a href="http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php" target="_blank">http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php</a>

1600 fishermen, 4 floating villages live today on the Ha Long Bay. For these inhabitants "the earth is confinement, papers and problems".<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay</a>

Some examples of lakeside cities. On the left, reconstitution of the museum of Unteruhldingen. On the right, coastal shantytown housing at Hanuabada in Port Moresby.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house</a>

"Waterworld" is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kevin Reynolds from 1995.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEp382HIisE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEp382HIisE</a>

"También la lluvia" is a Spanish film directed in 2011 by Icíar Bollaín which mentionned the 2000 protest in Cochabamba, Bolivia against the water privatization.<br><a href="http://vimeo.com/43191063" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/43191063</a>

The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives on the sea.<br><a href="http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U" target="_blank">http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U</a>

The city of Venice is built on a huge forest of stilts made of wood. The stilts vary in diameter and their length varies between 2 to 10 meters.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice</a>

Bernhard Edmaier is a german photographer who uses aerial photography.<br><a href="http://www.bernhard-edmaier.de/en/portfolio/wasser.html" target="_blank">http://www.bernhard-edmaier.de/en/portfolio/wasser.html</a>

The series "Absence of Water", disused swimming pools taken by the photographer Gigi Cifali.<br><a href="http://www.gigicifali.com/soho.html" target="_blank">http://www.gigicifali.com/soho.html</a>

The book "Maisons sur l'eau" (written in French) by Véronique Willemin, published by "Collection Anarchitecture".

The book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (available translated in English) by Jules Verne.

The book "Coupling, strategies for infrastructural opportunism", "Pamphlet Architecture 30" (written in English) by Infranet Lab / Lateral Office.<br><a href="http://www.infranetlab.org/" target="_blank">http://www.infranetlab.org/</a>

Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most important artist of Land Art. He creates site-specific and integrated sculptures, reorganizes nature and lets it take over his work.<br> <a href="http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/</a>

The traveling research station, "Haley VI" in Antarctica done by the architect Hugh Broughton was designed for 8 people to live in yearound. Built on skis, it is equiped with hydraulic pistons to foresee the rise of the snow according to the seasons.

Even on water there are disused places. Here are some pictures of abandoned British Sea Forts built during World War Two by the British Royal Navy. The Maunsell Sea Forts still stand today, a few meters above the North sea, not far off the coast of eastern England.

Examples of traditional Canadian floating houses particularly present in British Columbia (Canada).

Amphibious bicycle in Wuhan, China.