Unlike houseboats, floating homes are not meant to be moved around and are typically built on a floating foundation.

Living on top of the water -- in a floating home. "It's a beautiful lifestyle," said Robert Oshatz, the designer of a new floating house in Portland, Ore. "You have the beauty of the water.

What Is a Floating House? A floating home is most often used to describe a house on the water that doesn’t have a motor or navigation system, commonly docked among other floating homes.

Making Waves: Floating Homes and Life on the Water by Portland Mitchell is published by Thames & Hudson. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called The ...

which is already home to communities of floating houses, with his firm working to expand its system of floating structures to include multi-story “water-scrapers”. Adeyemi believes that ...

This means that this floating home can comfortably sleep up to four ... either for living on land or water. If you want to just try one out for a weekend, prices start at $259 per night.

Imagine a world where people live in modern luxury homes floating nearly seven and a half ... Dinghy boats, jet skis and local water taxis will be used to transport people to and from their ...

A small deck wrapped around the floating home, allowing the couple to dock their ... the set-up in the comments section. "Living by any water is so chef's kiss for me," wrote one impressed follower.

Philippe] With his desire to constantly adapt his home to the constraints of water, Rico embodies the pioneer sprit of the Dutch. - It's as if the dream of a floating home hasn't yet come true.

Ben&Ciara (@goinggreenmedia) shared a video recently of the floating ... tiny homes are sustainable in many ways, including using clean energy sources like solar and wind for power and water ...

Prospective residents could enter a lottery to buy water plots in the neighborhood. In 2008, Waterstudio became the first firm to place a floating home in IJburg. The structure, which is still ...

Today we visit the Floating Village of Kampong Khleang in Cambodia. Along the shores of the Tonlé Sap river you can find rows of stilt homes and floating homes which have been adapted to deal ...