Question for cruise affectionados: where do you get to enjoy the sea air, the company of hundreds if not thousands, a guarantee of no waves large enough cause motion sickness, and more lobster than you could ever dream of eating?
Answer: On a years-long cruise to nowhere aboard a prison hulk in Portsmouth Harbour at the turn on the nineteenth century, where the cheapest food was lobster, day after day after day.
With the attraction of cruising life at sea, and land prices one of the main reasons for housing unaffordability, just what is the future of floating housing at sea?
In certain corners of the world, single dwellings on pontoons have become attractive living opportunities. Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an example.
What about on a larger scale? Multiple dwelling units? Entire neighbourhoods? And particularly important, is there a future for affordable housing on water, rather than on land?
Read about LifeArk, a floating, modular, affordable housing concept in Forbes: Architects Worldwide Invent Groundbreaking Waterborne Solutions To Climate Change, Part 7
