The Eco Floating Home's ethos is "to construct healthy, ethical homes that enhance the countryside and deliver maximum comfort with minimum energy bills and a small carbon footprint." These homes utilize energy efficiently by harnessing natural light, incorporate solar heating, photo galvanic cladding, waste and water treatment, and passive energy control systems like green roofs.
They also boast sustainable building practices which reduce the amount of timber and labour used for each product. I know that houseboats are generally not the most eco-friendly structures, but I wonder how these ones would stand up against the rest!
Learn more about Eco Floating homes on their website
(images: Eco Floating Homes)
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Love the look of that!
I've always wanted to live in a floating home, and that one is beautiful. Love the glass door wall that opens for the living and dining rooms!
*whimper*
suhhhh-wooooon.
The website does not seem to work so I can't get specifics, but putting a home on top of a riparian ecosystem is just about the dumbest thing you can do. I guess slapping the label of "ECO" on something is the new trend in product lying.
sooooo cool. perhaps the coolest post ever.
I have to agree with Emmi. I love houseboats and this is lovely, but intruding upon a fragile ecosystem such as that featured in the photo is definitely a no-go for me.
hmm... while it is encroaching on a fragile ecosystem at least its not taking a bulldozer and desecrating it with heaps of concrete as is the standard fair for all homes. Short of living in a tent I think this level of coexistence is a good compromise
@Strawberria - I have to agree, if we consider that the homes can be moved as well you can probably bring that encroachment into a kind of harmony with the environs. I live on the shores of lake Ontario and while I realize that there are wintering issues living on the lake - it has a big appeal.
I agree of course that deforestation is an awful thing - but most people buy extant homes that were already there and they can thereafter protect the rest of the property and act as responsible stewards towards the surrounding land. This creates human structures where before there were none - and probably makes for unacceptable levels of pollution and harms biota. Where on earth would all the human waste go, and wouldn't it affec the entire body of water?
If I got to spend time in awesome surroundings such as these, I would not probably not need a tv set, and certainly not two.
I'm pretty sure the area above the firewood, is a fireplace Allegra M?
UH, my duh, shouldn't post when half asleep... I see the other TV.
Can't find any reference to photo galvanic cladding anywhere. What is it?