LifeArk's design empowers communities to transition from
surviving to thriving, on water and other vulnerable environments.
LifeArk’s inspiration first came as a design and engineering solution to the effects of climate change and rising water levels of communities living along river’s edges.
Our founder’s cousin works with the indigenous population in Santa Rosa and surrounding communities in Leticia, Colombia. Similarly to other river communities in Cambodia and Vietnam, residents of Santa Rosa Island are constantly fighting with water.
Water levels rise 3 meters (about 10 feet) every year due to the rise and fall of the rivers of the Amazon in this region. Families are forced to live in stilt homes or floating shacks in order to combat this force of nature. Households spend countless hours raising the floors of their homes as the water levels rise.
RAFT™ (Resilient Amphibious Floating Technology) is LifeArk’s patent pending adaptive foundation system that enables homes and communities to safely rise and fall with floodwaters, transforming vulnerable flood-prone land into resilient, developable, and climate-adaptive housing.
LifeArk Floating Communities are scalable, climate-resilient neighborhoods that combine sustainable housing, renewable energy, water independence, food production, and disaster-proof infrastructure to create thriving communities that adapt to rising waters rather than retreat from them.
LifeArk video showing Floating Community over Majuro Atol. Video rights LifeArk SPC©
