It looks like a regular house, but what you see up above is the FLOAT house, a "highly performative, 1,000 square foot house that is technically innovative in terms of its safety factor - its ability to float - as its sustainability, mass production and method of assembly." The house is intended for occupancy in New Orleans and should be able to cope with a Katrina-scale disaster:

The base of the home...in the event of a flood, "acts as a raft, allowing the house to rise vertically on guide posts, securely floating up to twelve feet as water levels rise," said Virginia Miller from Morphosis.

Designed by UCLA professor Thom Mayne, his grad students, and Morphosis Architects, the FLOAT house is one of the first projects to reach completion with the support of Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation, formed in the wake of the Katrina disaster.

via louisiana tv