為了讓房子能在水面上變得平穩，建築師為房子設計了船錨，外形上和一般的民用房子沒多大區別的「浮水之屋 Floating House」，實際上是由屋舍結構與底部浮筒接合而成。這樣的設計使得屋主能夠輕易改變房子的漂浮形態和靠岸的地點，讓屋內的人能在不同的時刻、不同的地點享受不同的景緻。
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設計案名稱：Floating House 浮水之屋
設計案位置：加拿大安太略 Ontario, Canada
建築師：MOS Office 建築師事務所 (Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample)
設計團隊：Fred Holt, Chad Burke, Ryan Bollom, Forest Fulton, Temple Simpson, Martin Kredizor, Jimenez Lai 賴彥吉
建造：2005年
總樓地板面積：186 平方米
工程顧問：David Bowick, Blackwell Engineering
承包商：Kropf Industries, Penfold Construction
攝影：Florian Holzherr
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This project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house's fabrication and construction, as well as its relationship to site. Annual cyclical change related to the change of seasons, compounded with escalating global environmental trends, cause Lake Huron's water levels to vary drastically from month-to-month, year-to-year. To adapt to this constant, dynamic change, the house floats atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to fluctuate along with the lake.
Locating the house on a remote island posed another set of constraints. Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use of thee unique character of the site:
Lake Huron as a waterway. Construction materials were instead delivered to the contractor's fabrication shop, located on t he lake shore. The steel platform structure with incorporated pontoons was built first and towed to the lake outside the workshop. On the frozen lake, near the shore, the fabricators constructed the house.
The structure was then towed to the site and anchored. In total, between the various construction stages, the house traveled a total distance of approximately 80 km on the lake.
The formal envelope of the house experiments with the cedar siding of the vernacular home. This familiar form not only encloses the interior living space, but also enclosed exterior space as well as open voids for direct engagement with the lake. A 「rainscreen」 envelope of cedar strips condense to shelter interior space and expand to either filter light entering interior spaces or screen and enclose exterior spaces giving a modulated yet singular character to the house, while performing pragmatically in reducing win d load and heat gain.