Futuristic Airships and Flying Yachts - made possible by nanotech composite materials

Rigid body airships with frame constructed out of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer material 


80 years ago, dirigibles transported 90 people and 10 tons of cargo for weeks at a time. Modern technological breakthroughs in computer controlled propulsion, material science, aerodynamic modeling, and energy conversion techniques opens up a new era in leisurely flying yachts, flying cruise ships, and floating transport. Amazing specific strength of composite materials allows large, very strong, and ultra light living quarters. A mobile home from conventional materials weighs around 6 tons. Recently tested 170 meter long airship prototype lifts about 66 tons. Private companies in collaboration with NASA and the military are developing dirigibles capable of substantially greater cargo loads.

Ultimately, of course this coincides

Flying Cars Lead to Flying Houses Stylistically

The early flying houses will be in the form of high tech sustainable airships and taking a flying car from them will often be less energy intensive than landing the whole house

Here at the flying house project, we haven't forgotten about the flying car. At this point we've all been waiting  for them for so long that when they arrive (in affordable, safe, and mass produced form), it'll be rather anticlimactic. However, latest flying car designs can make us think about the aerodynamic stylishness of flying house architecture in general. The shapes of less realistic far future antigravity cars can come in handy when thinking about the luxury Art Deco/"iPhone of the sky" nature of the house.

Compare the above styles to more realistic flying cars already existing or in the works below. We see that above are much more compatible with luxury airships and Zeppelins of the 21st century.