Grimshaw has designed a range of customisable floating modular homes in response to the threat of rising sea-levels.

The architect teamed up with Dutch manufacturing group Concrete Valley to produce designs for the Modular Water Dwelling, described by the pair as a potential solution to the shortage of affordable housing in urban areas, “free of the constraints of land-based construction and resilient to the mounting threat of flooding from rising sea-levels”.

Concrete Valley, based in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands, and Grimshaw said the proposed homes could be factory-made and feature standardised components, but would also allow for internal layouts to be determined by occupants’ own requirements.

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