Yeah screw pandas, lets just start making everyone out of bamboo

Here in Burma we use a combination of leaf and bamboo roofing. They last through monsoon season and keep the interior dry. However, a down side to this is the up-keep. Leaf roofs have a maximum lifespan of around 2 years. While I agree that there are better materials and/or methods, the idea is to use cheap locally sourced materials, metals have a huge upfront cost while bamboo can be grown on site for roof replacement.

What a beautiful design (agree that it may need more water proofing). But love the aspects such as the vertical garden, the sustainable use of local materials, and the insight to put the houses on pilings like they're looking into in the Netherlands.

Really cool concept. I would love to see it prototyped.

I'd like to see them build a prototype of this and test it out in various flood conditions. It's a cool idea, and hopefully they can find the right solution.

Also, could it be made tsunami-resistant? Maybe they'll come up with that for v2.0!

It's look like the designer never seen a flood :)

Looks great except for some details.

The roof is far too complicated, leaky, hard to build with bamboo when far more simple, stronger, waterproof methods are available.

Next while it will float maybe it can easily get blown over as designed and flooding many times comes with high winds. You need the drums on the outside edges to stability especially since this is a tall lightweight house.

And those drums need care at least 2x's/yr cleaned of rust and those spots painted. Or by the time you need them they well be useless rust balls in the tropics.

They would be better off with bamboo floats and use them for the floor beams saving much work, money.

As it is riding up on poles, the floatation base is sufficient as designed. Placing the drums at the edges increases exposure to the elements, too.

The flat, central part of the roof confuses me. Tropical homes have steep roofs to get as much water off as quickly as possible. A flat roof is an invitation to drips.

The larger issue with flooding will be objects moving by at high speed colliding with the home.

I agree with everything you said, with the possible exception of the roof. The flaps are a good idea and will go a long way toward keeping the house tolerably cool. I'd lose the triangular shape of the flaps for a conventional square, and I'd slightly reduce the size of the openings, I think, to simplify it and decrease water infiltration.

I never said don't use the roof opening/flaps, just better, easier, faster ways to build them.

I doubt a local would build the style of roof for themselves as they would take one look and laugh, what a foolish design.

Nor would they be fooled by the narrow floatation base and they'd have a good laugh at that too.

Fact is they likely just roll up 2-3 hulls of bamboo and build on it like they have for 1,000's of yrs.