More Than A Cozy Cottage, This Lifted Home Was Designed To Adapt To Climate Change

More Than A Cozy Cottage, This Lifted Home Was Designed To Adapt To Climate Change
More Than A Cozy Cottage, This Lifted Home Was Designed To Adapt To Climate Change As extreme weather events driven by climate change force people to evacuate more and more — and even permanently lose their homes — experts across industries are working to find solutions to safe housing and shelter amid uncertainty. Swedish architecture firm Ulf Mejergren Architects, or UMA, has answered a call to envision a type of home that could see us into the future. For an exhibition at the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, they unveiled Lift House — a red, storybook cottage that sits on a scissor lift you might otherwise recognize in a warehouse or construction site.  The Lift House inside the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design. Photo by Sima Korenivski “Lift House is a mobile refuge — a small house mounted on a scissor lift that can be raised when needed,” the architects wrote in a statement about the project. “In an era of increasing downpours, record rainfall, and sudden weather s…