Crawling around in thickets and woodlands on his hands and knees, he has devised a number of elegant solutions to preserve trees and other landscape elements including perching houses on stilts ...

Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!

stopping only to sleep in an over-the-water bungalow on stilts. On my final night, I lay on my belly, face peering through the glass-bottomed hut as neon fish darted between pylons and coral gardens.