Flock House is an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. On June 20, it will be a living prototype, inhabitants will imagine and experience some level of the capsule living in a future dependent on mobile cities (the flock house will have wheels on the bottom) while the elevated habitat will be able to cope with rising sea levels.

In 2025, the Global Urban Observatory predicts that city dwellers will reach 5 billion. New Yorker’s can: move to the water, inhabit Governor’s Island, crowd Long Island, and/or take to the sky. Flock House is a proposal for a space where “the sky’s the limit...”

The Flock House is a re-envisioning of how communities deal with disaster followed by a steadily encroaching sea.  Imagine a community where everything is mobile.  Much like many refugee exoduses throughout history, but prospering through their nomadic path.
 
The scenario:
Effects of climate change have ravaged the world.  Sea levels rise in front of you and deserts encroach behind. Survival is keeping your community on the move.  Months between rains and little access to fresh water mandate finding new ways to live.  Moving every couple of years to keep up with the invading tides, and dwindling food sources, a new type of home emerges - the Flock House.

The Flock House finds your community living behind a protective tsunami shield, collecting diminishing rainwater, and growing food in hanging gardens with reclaimed wastewater. 

Conventional wastewater treatment plants are too big, too energy intensive, too chemically dependent and, perhaps most importantly, too stationary.  The Flock House natural water treatment system allows your community to quickly establish new systems in each successive move.  Treatment ponds and wetlands are left behind and on-board nurseries provide quick replacement. Aquatic plants and microorganisms leverage natural processes to supply your community with consistent, coveted water. - From Icon Magazine

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