Baca completes amphibious house on the River Thames

This video shows the UK’s “first amphibious house“ by Baca Architects, which is located on the banks of the River Thames in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and has just been completed. Baca Architect’s Richard Coutts and Robert Barker designed Formosa for an island in the middle of the River Thames. Faced with building on a site prone to unpredictable flooding, the architects set about creating a design that could mitigate the risk of interior flooding. The result is a building that sits on fixed but separate fo