Water is the New Land?

Whilst our key phrase at UK Land Solutions (aka Plotwant) is 'Air is the new Land' in our efforts to source Roof Top real estate, perhaps the next saying should be 'Water is the new Land!' It may well be if Koen Olthuis, a notable architect and one who is making waves in the new field of Maritime Architecture has his way! Olthuis' company is not merely interested in individual homes, they want it all, they want to produce entire settlements. Linked together this should not cause any particular problem and the idea behind it is to deal with lowlands which will become subject to flooding with global warming, the high volumes of rain we seem more and more to be subject to between hot months of weather and doubtless the lack of land available for development.

Read more about this topic here:


http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=26138_0_24_0_C
http://www.dutchdocklands.com/
http://www.waterstudio.nl/