Building A House That Floods Every Year | Grand Designs: House of the Year | Channel 4

Retiring to the river bank is a dream for many, but the reality can be brutal when you're tying down garden furniture and wading to your car. Kevin McCloud visits Tony and Charlotte at their beautiful home 'River House', built on a floodplain in Barkshire.
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[@eleonoracasula1836]

Spectacular: outside and inside. Love the furnitures as well, what a great style they have.

[@1kaylababes]

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[@1kaylababes]

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[@1kaylababes]

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[@1kaylababes]

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[@davidhill9375]

How fabulous is that… I love people with imagination and flair.

[@Thatsme849]

usually I don't like modern buildings at all but this one is kinda cool

[@AK-tt1ww]

this looks like a traditional Malay house,which was built as such because of rising water from nearby rivers.

[@jcs3330]

Great and obvious idea in relation to the property's location. Just watch the neighbors look on thinking, "wish I had done that!", when the floods hit. Has for the planting/landscaping, how about designing and commissioning some large black planters that are suspended below and sit just below the exterior deck and glass, but above the 'flood water level?....it would definitely visually connect the house with the surrounding lawns etc.

[@mirandachristina3412]

How clever!

[@Timeculture]

That’s a brilliant idea

[@adalbert9451]

And there are enough plants that withstand regular floodings (a lot of salix for example). So they could use those to at least create some structure and shadow in the „garden“.

[@simonhartley2772]

A beautiful home with stunning views and built to last with the foresight of the risk the extreme elements of it's environment will throw at it

[@mirandachristina3412]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[@alancawfield6549]

Alot more houses whether they are in floodplains or not should be built raised up from the ground like this as a protection against flooding which is almost certainly going to happen more often with climate change.

[@Timeculture]

Old buildings/castles with Many steps in the front porch was for thesame purpose, to elevate the building above 100 year floods because if the building lasts long enough, it is just a question of when

[@rachelcookie321]

It’s a lot more expensive to do this though and probably not as safe in earthquake prone areas.

[@ownyourworld]

Remember when Al gore said we would all be under water by 2012 ? You are being lied to so they can make money out of us

[@eden-caledoniajohn3168]

@@rachelcookie321 earthquakes are not generally an issue we have in the UK - flooding, fire or a rare landslide are the biggest risk to our homes.

[@andrewjones-productions]

@@rachelcookie321 There are plenty of houses on 'stilts' here in very earthquake prone Japan. Not an issue thus far, although Japanese building regulations have strict requirements for a building to be earthquake resistant and there is a lot of know-how here as there is in New Zealand.

[@FinneasJedidiah]

I saw a house in Tybee Island GA like this, but it was a mobile home on a bunch of 8' stacks of cinderblocks

[@khalidhussain8584]

They can build raised walk bridge to the garage to avoid flooding.

[@ragnorremix8426]

Build these in all the flood plains, would solve a lot of problems

[@killerkhan]

Nice chilled environment when all is well 😉

[@Timeculture]

Another beautiful idea would be to have a garage/platform for the car or one that floats the car when flooding starts

[@rachelcookie321]

If the car is floating then you won’t be able to drive it

[@morry427]

🤣

[@adogmcdizzle]

@@rachelcookie321 but at least it won’t be flooded!

[@robj3857]

I used to live on this road, our neighbour over the river ‘lost’ his car 3 years running, it’s no joke. Our car port was raised so we never had a problem. Most of the time you could get out in a real 4X4 but sometimes you had to keep the car at the station and go out by boat. I used to drive my Dad across the field in my little rigid inflatable boat to take him to the station to go to work.

[@andrewjones-productions]

I have just written a similar comment myself! Great minds thing alike perhaps!

[@Simonb1977]

I would extent the stairs to the roof and put a roof terrace there...

[@MassiveLib]

Large open plan box next to river.....

[@rosemaryspencer1501]

Beautiful.

[@kevinchomyshyn523]

Spectacular design 👌

[@elizabethkeenan9074]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE THEY DONE A LOVELY JOB 🏠🙏🕯️

[@missprimproper1022]

Love it!

[@ramthian]

So beautiful 😻

[@SLCpresents]

One big flaw we’re doing u park the Bentley during the swell

[@barrymurton8988]

Beautiful

[@Clapicus]

then build metal walkway that is also suspended up to the nearest road... I guess

[@JK-fi4vh]

What a beautiful house. Would love to spend the summer and spring months there 😍

[@trinigurl5135]

So beautiful 😍

[@osmanm6672]

I LOVE IT. ITS WORTH EVERY PENNY

[@daviddalby9699]

An adventure to live in brilliant

[@katewright9494]

I think it’s horrible, it reminds me of a giant porta cabin on stilts. I’d hate my garden ruined every year also. But these people love it, and that’s what counts.

[@johnje4285]

I agree, I consider is very unattractive and as I love gardens I couldn't bear it

[@gloriarobinson1869]

Kate, you cannot beat nature, so you have to work with it and come up with your best idea, until she stop you from fighting her.

[@b.walker5955]

Love the humble confession recognizing the columns existence. Those sneaky little unassuming squares were extremely assuming.

[@kaydesign]

They can build a bridge / scaffolding to the higher road? No need for small boats then?

[@oliverharris9567]

A beautiful house 😍

[@osmanm6672]

I love it

[@josephconnor5312]

Awesome

[@alidi4144]

Love that house

[@leelamuthuveloe5287]

This type of houses on stilts is not a new concept. I have seen these houses in Belize in cental America and in the far Eastern countries like in Malasia,Indonesia etc.

[@JoJo-Hamilton]

Cars go into the garage when the floods come. So the garage has a floor that raises above the water level? Would anyone in their right mind buy that should it ever come onto the market?

[@andrewjones-productions]

I like it! Although, I think that I would have created a parking platform with a ramp up to be able to park the car not only next to an entrance to make carrying in the shopping easier, but also for somewhere to put the car out of a flood's harm. It could have also been used in conjunction with a kind of jetty that would that would in normal weather be enjoyed as a kind of walkway or mini garden pier if you like. Most likely they park their vehicle on higher ground nearby at such times and use the boat to ferry between home and vehicle which is probably a lot cheaper than what I have suggested. A LOT cheaper.

[@gbphil]

So if it floods properly, the corridor will be the length of an Olympic swimming pool.

[@sumayah6025]

Would love to live here… even with the floods. And if I was rich enough to do that anyways, I would add a helipad on the roof, for convenience of course 😅🤣

[@gloriarobinson1869]

Sumayah good idea, fly to do the shopping during the flood, heads would turn with envy🤪🤪

[@bigjohn5689]

How did they get planning in a flood risk area

[@phoenixreborn6224]

These are the typically like Rumah Panggung in Borneo. That why the dayak build typical home like these. Some time 3m to avoid mosquito, i just knew for water flood too. I remember now the lived near river too. But they build with timber.

[@sofyannoor8339]

INDONESIAN need to think like them for their house in Indonesia

[@lingth]

NSW and Victoria should design their house like this.. no need to clean up after floods and throw away furniture and rebuy and then see it flood again the next year.

[@peternicholas9550]

Its built on a flood plain so accept that their will be a flood of water on the property at some time.

[@1337murk]

There will be*

[@masumhasan5066]

Nice video

[@andy4ward.slavaukraini.364]

They've saved mankind.

[@indiaenticknap1675]

how are the footings put into the ground on this build ?

[@tukicat1399]

Thats what Aussies call a Queenslander..

[@rachelcookie321]

Does Queensland flood?

[@stuartwray6175]

Living solutions for wealthy individuals.

[@earthgraduate726]

It's all about the house and not once a mention of the designer !

[@kneedrabell4862]

I would love to purchase the house plans for this home.

[@shelleenwheeldon9653]

Do an extension garage

[@SueMead]

This is the style I admire the most. Mies Van der Rohe vision changed the world for the better. I just wouldn't want to have been one of his clients. A bit of on point (possibly the point being cliché) furniture mixed with a soft old chair. But there's a little too much of, "we simply must have (insert the expected furnishings list)" but perhaps they're sincere, and it isn't about anything besides just liking Eames, Le Corbusier - Perriand, Castiglioni bros, Saarinen etc.,. Though they're not short a bob or two so perhaps they're original, so are investment pieces. Okay, I'll admit to a bit of modernist envy but there's an art deco piece that caught my eye as well.

[@nupurakter873]

good

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

The materials in this building

[@Josh19998]

How do they get parcels and takeaways?

[@chriscurran7756]

Elon musk entered the chat

[@TomVillars]

Cost?

[@conorgrennan983]

How do they get the car in and out

[@AMPProf]

UMM FYI you can plant tones under that!

[@timmayers4965]

It’s ok but my 3 bed semi in Leeds is much better 😂

[@prepostgamer305]

Jet ski problem solved

[@lil-g4879]

Where do they park their car?

[@windyhawthorn7387]

I do like an house on stilts.

[@caromaro591]

I think it is a hideous characterless box.

[@ThepPixel]

Thats why its modernist. Its not for those with a heart for more traditional abodes.

[@elizabethbower2168]

There is a reason why houses should never be built on floodplains… Absolutely stupid to disregard

[@myworldntl]

Why has Berkshire been spelt as Barkshire…?

[@CLR_CeannaLiv_Ruby]

.. Ur not the only ytberim one is well and it's not hard

[@Zara-gl8pm]

Saw this ok tiktok

[@mapala78]

Berkshire NOT Barkshire

[@christopher9727]

John 3.16-21

[@RickRubinesque]

Exterior looks Soviet to say the least.

[@AtomicBS7]

jerald

[@bunnykinssmile]

It’s a modern Noah ark

[@quantumeseboy]

Why the f*ck two people need a house of that size??

[@1337murk]

For good mental health

[@RavagHer]

i guess fuck the car right?

[@lebored8264]

Impractical

[@ljlacierda8358]

Jokers

[@rachelcookie321]

Not when you’re rich

[@Doug791]

What a horrible box on stilts. Ruins the landscape and scenery. Whoever gave them permission to build it should be sacked.

[@markpallister9882]

Terrible ... Looks like a giant box without any soul ..

[@johnbowkett80]

I cannot stand this overated prat . Up his own very wide and capacious sphincter

[@eshannon922]

Beautiful.