Looking for prices to built elevated home.

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I would like to be able to park under house.
Thank you for your previous answer.

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Just to clarify, would the house be elevated above grade or are you planning a basement with parking? Also do you already have drawings? If you're planning on parking in your basement I strongly suggest you speak with your engineer about this, or even your architect to verify that you have adequate clearance to fit everything.

Hey man, I build homes, but not 10' in the air. It is much more expensive to raise a home rather than on slab. The other poster was recommending you build on pilings. That's like what you would see at the beach. You can come under the home and still do concrete and park, like they do at the beach. The other way would be to do a pier system. You will still have to do a full slab required by the building codes, and then pay to do the piers and sub floor, so it is quite a but more expensive. You have the slab regardless, but then you have to add on wood for the floor system, extra money for things like tile floors, handrail and decking for the porches, etc. If you haven't purchased land yet, I would budget probably in the neighborhood of $30-35 more per sqft over a regular home.
Dirt is not an option for going up 10'. In Ascension parish they only allow 2' of soil over natural grade of the land plus the break even point for dirt work to start looking at raising a home for cost is probably 4-5' high.

Poured concrete pilings? Cinder Blocks? Wood? What are you planning to use to elevate the property?

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Thank you for your answer.
The floor plans i found call for 28 columns. I guess i will go with concrete blocks. I shouldn't have to deal with waves?? If i do we all are in big trouble... and hopefully we will never have another catastrophic flood like last August...