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Colourful amphibious houses at Maasbommel beside the water

This house only floats when the river forces it to

An amphibious house sits on the ground most of the time, then rises with a flood. Making it buoyant is not the hardest part: guides, utilities and access all have to tolerate metres of vertical movement.

Pine cone, bark and 3D-printed pieces used to study adaptive materials

A pine cone mechanism ends up as 3D-printing code

MIT researchers formalized the whole chain from a biological mechanism to an engineering model and fabrication code. The important part is that validated pieces can be recombined.