Explore 14 unique houses that adapt to topography, showcasing diverse architectural strategies for sloped landscapes.

Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!

And a new house on stilts, Stewart Avenue Residence, was born. ‘After [our client] went through Hurricane Irma in 2017, he knew it was time to build something new,’ the architects recall. ‘His ...

Unlike modern developments around it in Port Klang, one of the busiest ports in the world, this village has retained traditional structures such as wooden houses built on stilts over mudflats.

Mountain House in Mist is a book house designed to revive the rural village of Jinhua, China. The first floor is built on stilts to leave space for the villagers to rest, drink tea and chat.The ...