Amphibious House 2.0 – A Flood resilient home design to live and work with water in Henley upon Thames By: Baca Architects Baca Architects, the practice who specialise in designing projects in, on, near and under water have secured full planning permission for a new amphibious house. The Misty River House is a pre-existing residence situated in Henley upon Thames. The homeowners engaged Baca Architects to replace the current substandard dwelling with a meticulously designed amphibious house. This proposal simultaneously deals with its sensitive riverside setting while concurrently mitigating flood risk for its residents. The house is not located within a conservation area but is located within the local Greenbelt. An Amphibious House is a building that sits on the ground, within a ‘dock’, and is designed to rise from its ‘dock’ on the rare occasion when an extreme flood occurs. This form of construction will help reduce the risk of the existing property and to the surrounding properties by providing additional flood storage under the building. This type of property has the benefit of improving the relationship of the building to the ground plain by providing fewer steps up to the building and eliminating the redundant void below the … Continue reading Amphibious House 2.0