Research on the bay's stilt houses: how a structure lives over water for another century.
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- 2023
- area
- Study
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- Preservation research
Commissioned research with the national park: what does stewardship of Stiltsville's seven surviving houses look like across a century of rising water?
The flats south of Cape Florida, where the houses stand in open water on limestone and luck.
Existing timber piles · Demountable cypress skins · Stainless fixings · Storm-rated fabric
A repair grammar rather than a design: every intervention reversible, every material liftable by two people from a skiff, every house documented to the bolt.
Published as drawings the park's volunteer crews actually use; the study's pile-jacket detail has been built eleven times.
Unbuilt. Until the site breaks ground, the blueprint is the manifest: the drawings above are the current state of the truth.
Set to solar time.