providing protection from the rising and falling some people said. designing buildings that were as light as possible. and building on a moving substrate. the solution they came up with was brilliant they placed a wooden construction on the piles and weighted down with several layers of bricks . on top of this they go to surround a white stone from istria on the adriatic it formed the 1st line of defense against the salt force. that deals with the interface between the water and that that resists an infinitely long time because it's not permeable to the salty water . the resistant strain stone is unaffected by the rise and fall of the sea horse and. the heights of this protective wall corresponded to the tidal range in this way the