Globals warming has brought many issues to the far north,but rising sea levels are now threatening homes and contributing to housing shortages. Designers are now attempting to save a way of life with novel housing in the coldest regionsIn the spring, after the permafrost thaws and the ground settles, and Wilson Andrew Sr takes a wrench to the metal pilings that hold up the foundation of his house in Atmautluak,Alaska, and makes it level again. He cranks the screws until the foundation flattens out, or level with the ground. At least for now. Andrew’s house,on a small island traditionally inhabited by indigenous Alaskans, is a prototype modular domestic designed by the Fairbanks-based nonprofit Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) to be resistant to harsh weather and a quickly changing climate, and while still being affordable and easy to build.
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Source: theguardian.com