theguardian/environment/2014/feb/16/flooding-netherlands The Dutchs Rumah Sampan. ... Several Dutch companies have experimented with amphibious housing. In 2005 one architectural company, Dura Vermeer, built 32 floating homes in Amsterdam, based loosely on old Dutch house boats. The plan was to beat the government ban on building behind the dykes which surround the cities, the equivalent of banning building in flood plains, by creating amphibious houses of two types: one that would be on dry land until it flooded, when it would effectively float up with the rising water; and another that was built over water but that could cope with its changing levels. Most of the houses are now holiday homes. ... Attn: Abu Sumaiyah Al-Jawi tq Liang Ng.
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