The article raises issues concerning the use of floating architecture (FA) as a tool for modern urban planning, with particular emphasis on housing issues. An analysis of foreign examples indicates a wide spectrum of potential for objects "floating on water". The completion of the theoretical and technical experimentation phase allows for the popularization of such solutions at the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century, not only as a response to the elite needs of refined public use architecture. Alongside exceptional realizations on significant waterfronts, increasingly egalitarian housing projects are now emerging strengthening redevelopment process. FA objects, along with derivative forms such as amphibious architecture and boathouse architecture, have become part of the permanent planning toolbox for areas that, due to complex (technical-administrative-economic) reasons, cannot be developed conventionally. In times of debate about adapting cities to climate change, FA is also a seriously considered solution in the flexible-resilient strategies for developing areas at risk of flooding or even artificial oceanic habitats designed for climate migrants. The article presents the systematized results of the research concerning the determination of the main trends in the applications of FA in the revitalization processes of urban waterfront areas. The results were used to determine the scope of two master's thesis projects dedicated to the water front of Gdańsk.