What else than boating on a quiet river to relax creators’ brain? Nothing — in fact, many things but we like to think there isn’t any. That’s the basic idea of the Floating House, tagged a studio for resident artists and authors invited by the CNEAI (the National Contemporary Art Center for Publication, in Paris, France).
The Floating House is a wooden and aluminum barge, 23-meters long and 5-meters wide, which hosts this cool feature: “In the next future, plants will recover the whole, thus integrating the building within the landscape of the shores and providing further intimacy to the residents“, as said the Jean-Marie Finot and Denis Daversin, the pair of architects behind the concept.
They are also keen on this “open source” aspect of the Floating House. Its shape was conceived to be a reproducible object, so it can be designed again and again with various lengths and rooms surfaces to better fit, and increase its maneuverability in the targeted river for example.
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