Patent ID: 7824131

Claim:
A building over the water comprising: a superstructure located entirely above the surface of the water, the superstructure configured to be an inhabitable structure provided with at least one floor structure; at least one support detachably secured to the superstructure, the support-positioned directly under the floor structure and adapted to sit on the ground and extend above the surface of the water in order to hold the superstructure above the surface of the water in a first fixed position; and at least one mobile floating dock with variable and controllable buoyancy, partially immersed and extending above the surface of the water and being detachably positioned under the floor structures in the first fixed position, the mobile floating dock independent from and having no contact with the support and no contact with the ground, wherein in a second traveling position the supports are detached from the superstructure so that the superstructure is detached from the ground, the superstructure is subsequently held above the surface of the water by the mobile floating docks so that the superstructure is thereby transportable on water on the mobile floating docks.