Levitating House developed by Japanese

Levitating House developed by Japanese

Nature has undoubtedly been destructive since a couple of years. The earth's surface has been shaking and rolling because of the occurrence of mega-tornados, hurricanes, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, causing a lot of damage to the human lives as well as their property. Consequentially, there have been a number of innovative housing solutions resilient to natural disasters, proposed by different companies. These solutions include concrete palaces in the Ozarks, amphibious abodes in the U.K, and the underground luxury homes constructed into decommissioned nuclear missile storage areas. After a year of the disastrous earthquake at Tohoku and the following Tsunami, the people of Japan, are pursuing the conjuring of novel and innovative means and methods for keeping the contents and residents in a house safe, when the earth starts rumbling on the occurrence of an earthquake (Abrams, 2012).

As a matter of fact, natural disasters like earthquakes are not the cause of people's deaths; the houses constructed by people in the middle of earthquakes are the real cause. By viewing and analyzing the photographs taken at such sites or the statistics collected, one would realize that most of the fatalities after an earthquake are due to the edifices, or parts of edifices that fall on people. Having these facts considered, there generally seems to be no solution of completely avoiding this calamity other than to toss a house in the air on the occurrence of an earthquake. Research presents several ways of preventing the damage caused by the earthquakes, which may be classified into three distinct categories; seismic construction technique, isolation technique, and the levitating technique. The seismic construction technique entails that the architects would strengthen the foundation and structure of the house itself for the order of contending with earthquakes.

The benefit of this technique is that it is very economical; however the disadvantage is that the house may still be damaged quite easily. The other technique called the isolation technique is very costly and causes the architects to implement a shock system amid the house and the ground surface. In this way, the house would not be coupled with the shaking ground surface solidly, and in times of an earthquake, its movement would be minimized. The third one is the levitating technique, which is a novel technique developed by the Japanese and which is the basis of a solution provided by Air Danshin, a Japanese company. They deploy a ...