Brad Pitt’s Make It Right NOLA foundation and Morphosis Architects are unveiling a floating house tomorrow. Yes, you read it right, a floating home made for a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Morphosis Architects founder, Thom Mayne, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize spoke to NPR about the project explaining that the designers gave the building a chassis, made it out of polystyrene foam and covered it with glass-reinforced concrete.The house is anchored to the ground by two vertical guideposts. At times of flooding, the house moves up the guideposts—up to 12 feet—to prevent it from drifting. Mayne said, “What does that do? It produces a raft; it floats. And it’s thought about as a seat belt. I mean, hopefully it never gets used. But when it gets used, it’s important.”

Listen to the full NPR story here. And check out this story on Make It Right from Plum TV. It’s from last year but it a great piece explaining the foundation’s mission: