Worthing
Howard and Sarah have embarked on a number of ambitious building projects together over the last 30 years, but now they’ve devised plans for the most radical yet – a sleek, angled, metallic floating home on a tidal estuary near Worthing. Designed to look like a boat, and nestled within an idiosyncratic houseboat community, the structure will sit on an experimental, prefabricated, polystyrene slab to deal with high tides alternating with hours sitting in the mud. On top of the floating polystyrene will sit a steel frame that will need to be strong enough to resist the stresses of a moving structure, covered in composite, insulated steel cladding. Upstairs will be a soaring, open-plan living space with an outer
deck and views of the estuary, while below deck there’s to be accommodation for them and their teenage children, a home office and a cinema room. It’s a huge experiment, with £385k to spend over an 18 month schedule, especially as they will be doing much of the work themselves and finalising the engineering as they go.
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Things get off to an agonizingly slow start when it takes months to painstakingly remove a condemned D-Day Landing Craft that sits on the plot. Design and fabrication of the floating polystyrene slab is a real headscratcher. They need to buy a crane to get materials over a tall sea defence wall. Add to all that the constant tidal shifts that disrupt any construction and it's a real recipe for disaster…
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