The latest Dezeen x MINI Living video explores The D*Haus Company's vision for flood-resistant Georgian-style housing, which claimed first prize in our Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition.
The London architecture studio's contest submission, called The Kentish Classic, depicts pre-fabricated timber homes that are elevated above water level by 3D-printed concrete platforms.
The D*Haus Company developed its proposal to fulfil the brief, which called for Dezeen readers to design a home that responds to the challenges a city might face a century from now. Its design responds to a future when  city's are impacted by significant urban flooding caused by rising sea levels.
The Kentish Classic proposes that houses are built on 3D-printed concrete platforms Despite the competition's futuristic premise, the studio chose to turn to the past for inspiration and proposed what The D*Haus Company describes as a "more vernacular future".
The proportions of the structures are based on traditional two-storey houses in London and are adorned with decorative motifs that reference the "exquisite Georgian facades" of homes built between the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The facades of the houses are replicas of those found in Kentish Town in London
"We started to look at what London was like 100 years in the past to gauge the level of change," said David Ben-Grunberg and Daniel Woolfson, the architects behind the submission.
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