• Ravi S. Gupta
• Harshal Pandule
• Akash Padole

Flooding is one of the most natural common disaster in India and this phenomenon has been worsening due to current global warming conditions. The disaster cost the government a huge amount of money and effort to handle it in terms of its catastrophe and mitigation strategy. It also has an adverse effect on land value in the floodplain area. Therefore, it is crucial to resort for more effective flood mitigation approach in India. This need has motivated this research to develop a new sustainable, environment friendly and flexible flood mitigation measure known as amphibious house within an amphibious urbanisation environment. This concept enabled the dwellers to live with flood rather than to confront it. The amphibious house system consists of the pit system concept with horizontal support, a specially formulated light weight concrete material, special designed precast pontoon system and precast glass fibre reinforced gypsum panels, which provide floatation to the single storey house during flooding. This research is conducted in phases using qualitative and quantitative data collection approach to develop reliable and stable amphibious house. The initial approach consists of interview with expert panels and using questionnaire survey to establish potential of using the amphibious house as a sustainable flood mitigation strategy. This followed with fuzzy materials selection for developing sustainable lightweight concrete ground floor slab composition and design with ferrocement pontoons composition and design. The amphibious house system has been vigorously analysed to meet the standard floatation and stability requirements in the hydraulic laboratory which includes hydraulic testing for drag forces, tilting angle and point load test on a floodplain model. Finally, this research produces program to assist the designer to analyse the amphibious nature and stability of the amphibious house system. The findings from this research have successfully established a novel concept of amphibious house system. This concept provides potential development of flood proof urbanisation especially in low lying area with very minimum risk to flood disaster.

"Analysis and Design of Amphibious House", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no.f49-f64, October-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110508.pdf

"Analysis and Design of Amphibious House", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no. ppf49-f64, October-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110508.pdf