PAQUEBOTE Code PAC017 The idea of the ship building is adressed to the development of a light construction built upon a floating platform. The dweling's performance tries to overcome the classic models of space division into compartments allowing most of the house surface to be available for a better fit for different life styles. The project of a residential construction suitable for inundated lands or non-resistant filled up surfaces is best addressed by the development of the ship building. The volume of this ship building does not have to be modelled along the curvelineal parameters of nautic engineering, since optimal conditions for a fast navigation are no its objetive; it is rather a light construction built upon a floating platform. It closer resembles beach barges or the rectangular rafts which are sometimes used to cross rivers and lakes with the help of large vertical poles which allow to lever upon the bottom. This idea's viability and the purpose of avoiding a massive invasion of land favour the option of a housing cluster with an entity on its own. This project would allow to reduce the access roads and to increase the surrounding free surface; besides, it greatly diminishes the consumption of surfaces and materials for supply facilities and common services, thus enabling a significant cost reduction. This housing cluster should be projected both taking into account the design of each individual unit and the shape of the whole construction. Each individual housing unit is conceived as a basic cell of innovative design, open to the various usage conditions, which is completed in a two-story building, according to the following criteria: -The service elements related to supply facilities and discharge, as well as more complex constructions (i.e. stairs) are grouped on a compact prismatic block, which could be prefabricated, serialy produced and sistematically distributed. -The study of the evolution of availability and costs, as well as of the emerging demand in the field of residential construction favours the option of overcoming the classic models of space division into compartments, with rigid separations into a large number of small rooms; in the opposite of this trend, the proposal here is of a doble free story, with relative large dimmensions and rectangular shape, which would allow to maintain the classic separation between night and day areas, and it also allows most of the housing surface to be totally available, so that it would be much more readily adaptable to a variety of life styles and users, or family units with very different size and composition. Access to the houses is at the first floor, from a central gallery with a longitudinal development and close-fitting dimensions where all building communications, both horizontal and vertical, are concentrated. The ground level is used for a car parking and general acceses. In its central axis the begining of the stairs is to be found, which then elevate to the upper level, up to the roof. Its ground is the surface of the large platform of the building foundation, and it is directly linked to the incoming road. The roof functions as a kind of large solarium, with a swimming pool and rest areas, and it concentrates a variety of facilities and integral building equiptment, thus enabling a true unité d'habitation. The supply and discharge channels are lined up through one integral network which runs parallel to the building access road. The solution outlined in this project, from the practical habitability standpoint, combines both the need of providing a high level of privacy in the especific areas of each of the individual housing units with the complementary model of a colective lifestile based on the universal principles of balance, economy, equality, ecology and solidarity.