{"id":538649,"date":"2026-03-22T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:40:19","slug":"eight-contemporary-houses-raised-on-stilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538649\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight contemporary houses raised on stilts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether to make sloped sites level, prevent flooding or reduce impact on natural surroundings, houses<\/a> on stilts<\/a> are being built around the world. Here are eight of the best contemporary examples.<\/p>\n

\"Houses<\/a>Photography by Leonardo Finotti<\/p>\n

House in the Delta by MAPA, Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n

Raised on stilts to protect from periodic flooding on its riverside site near Buenos Aires, House in the Delta was the first Passivhaus-certified home built in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Architectural studio MAPA<\/a> described the home as “an amphibious house \u2013 built high above the ground to coexist with the periodic flooding on the banks of the Paran\u00e1 Mini”.<\/p>\n

Find out more about House in the Delta\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"House<\/a>Photography by Nicol\u00e1s Saieh<\/p>\n

Prat House, by ERRE Arquitectos, Chile<\/a><\/p>\n

Located in Matanzas, Chile, the 128-square-metre Prat House was designed by Raimundo Guti\u00e9rrez of ERRE Arquitectos<\/a> to take advantage of its coastal site.<\/p>\n

The entire single-storey seaside house was elevated on steel stilts, with a raised walkway and timber steps providing access.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Prat House\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Swedish<\/a>Photography by Markus Linderoth<\/p>\n

Yngsj\u00f6 by Johan Sundberg Arkitektur, Sweden<\/a><\/p>\n

Constructed using predominantly light-coloured timber to help it blend with its surroundings, Yngsj\u00f6 was built as a retreat from city life for a Swedish family based in London.<\/p>\n

Located close to the shores of the Baltic Sea, the house is designed to sit lightly on the site with over half the structure raised on slender steel pillars.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Yngsj\u00f6\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Casa<\/a>Photo by Del Rio Bani<\/p>\n

Casa 144\u00ba by Jaime Prous Architects and Pineda & Monedero, Spain<\/a><\/p>\n

Architecture studios Jaime Prous Architects and Pineda & Monedero raised this metal-clad home on metal stilts above a steeply sloping site to the east of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Created for a retired couple who wanted an escape from the city, Casa 144\u00ba is lifted off the ground to minimise its impact on the landscape.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa 144\u00ba\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Residence<\/a>Photography by Adrien Williams<\/p>\n

Residence Chez L\u00e9on by Quinzhee Architecture, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Described by its architect as “a contemporary chalet in harmony with its environment”, this cedar-clad residence was raised above a sloped site overlooking the St Lawrence River in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

Quinzhee Architecture designed the 129-square-metre ski house to take advantage of its site and surrounding views.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Residence Chez L\u00e9on\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Photography by Studio Campo<\/p>\n

Hole with the House Around by ElasticoFarm, Italy<\/a><\/p>\n

The aptly named Hole with the House Around comprises a series of boxy volumes raised on stilts surrounding a central void.<\/p>\n

Architecture studio ElasticoFarm<\/a> designed the structure as an extension to an existing 1970s house surrounded by trees in an Italian park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Hole with the House Around\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Houses<\/a>Photography by Ivar Kval<\/p>\n

Villa Grieg, by Saunders Architecture, Norway<\/a><\/p>\n

Saunders Architecture<\/a> designed this house overlooking a lake in Norway for the descendants of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.<\/p>\n

Named Villa Grieg, the house combines a two-bedroom home with a music studio. The sloped music studio sits on the ground floor, with stairs leading up to the raised home that winds around a central void.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Villa Grieg\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tetro<\/a>Photography by Jomar Bragan\u00e7a<\/p>\n

Casa A\u00e7ucena by Tetro Arquitetura, Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n

The majority of this angular, lily-shaped home was raised on stilts to prevent the unnecessary removal of trees from its site in a lush Brazilian forest.<\/p>\n

According to the studio, the black stilts that support the house were placed at “random” to emulate how trees grow in a forest.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa A\u00e7ucena\u00a0\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether to make sloped sites level, prevent flooding or reduce impact on natural surroundings, houses on stilts are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[100034,228,226,227,229,88,989,4728,15041,64879,64880],"class_list":["post-538649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture-on-stilts","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-houses","tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","tag-roundups","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}