Visualize the home of the future
Home Futura - Result Story
Home
The thought of a home has been pushed and pulled throughout the history of time and is still being in a shift today. What it clearly indicates is that the definition is more of an idea that is malleable and changes for everyone. A residence and a home may be synonymous but not the same, A house and a home are synonymous but not the same. The idea of home changes from the place, people, culture, time, social conditions, and countless other aspects. However, between these entities, its designers and architects continue to define and redefine it.
Home while representing a plurality of ideas, its impact on the end-user is extremely profound. In these times of distancing, our homes are the most permanent element in our lives and continue to influence lives much much more. It is the first and the most fundamental exercise served to architecture students even today and is a great playground to discuss our belief in this pluralistic thought and its trends.
Brief of the competition
The design challenge was simply to show what home is to you? Participants could use any mediums, video, images, drawings, sketches, models, paintings - and communicate what dwelling meant to them and the client they designed it for. The design outcome included 3-4 images, & a small concept statement of what the idea for the home was to them and how it was translated into the built form. The challenge was open to all architects, architecture students, interior designers, interior architects, visualizers, draughtsmen, and creatives globally.
What do you believe will be the changed/adapted/transformed definition of home?
The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:
Deirdre Renniers, Founder / Design Director, Deirdre Renniers Interior Design, Singapore
Kerrie Kelly, CEO + Creative Director, Kerrie Kelly Design Lab, United States
Neil Dusheiko, Director, Neil Dusheiko Architects, United Kingdom
Aleksandra Kurc, CEO / Designer / Architect, Maka Studio, Poland
Some of the Best of competition projects are:
Winning Project: nest house
Fig: 1 Cover image
Description: A house that blends in with the surrounding nature. When a house is built, the amount of forests releasing oxygen to the atmosphere increases. A form inspired by a stork's nest. Constructed of natural and processed materials.
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Runner Up: INvisible house
Fig: 2 Ground Floor Plan
Description: An INvisible house is a modern fortress, this is my interpretation of the house as a refuge and a literal cut-off from reality. This house is designed for a blind person who perceives light. The play of light in this design is very important to the resident.
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People’s Choice: DASEIN, Behind The Wall
By: Zeynep Özge Yalcin & Kardelen Türkoğlu
Fig: 3 Section Plan and Interior Design
Description: Humanity lost the meaning of home and get homeless, rootless. We are the ones that search for its true meaning.
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Editor’s Choice: Unique House
Fig: 4 Cover image
Description: The main idea of the project is to redefine the traditional model of a house by creating a multi-purpose building. The Unique House was built on the foundation of the family, a sense of security, and peace of mind. To build a house of the future must foreground sensibility toward both nature and people's needs.
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Editor’s Choice: At Home With Nature
By: Misak Terzibasiyan, Danai Dafnouli & AMIR FEIZINEZHADGHESHLAGHI
Fig: 5 Roof terrace image
Description: This home is a place where you can stay in connection with nature. The client wants to live nearby the city of Amsterdam but in a surrounding with trees and nature. The home of the future is the home where we can stay in close contact with nature, with healthy building materials for humans and the environment.
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Editor’s Choice: Sakura Jukyo
By: Vikram Ghattora, Nupur Baranwal & Aditi Panwar
Fig: 6 Cover image
Description: The words ‘Home Futura’ bring to the mind an image of the future, every human being has an ideal future and an essential part of this futuristic vision is a home. Idioms like ‘Home is where the heart is’ come to mind.
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Editor’s Choice: Time Bubble——The home of the future
By: Ying Chen, Wanqing Zhang & Yao Chen
Fig: 7 Cover image
Description: In decades to come, there will be no land used for habitation in the city. And people will move their home to the countryside. The home of the future will be just like a bubble that can change (expand, shrink, fuse, crack) according to the usage state of the home.
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Editor’s Choice: Oasis
By: Nicolas Gomez Camacho, Andres Felipe Cardenas Murcia, Ana Victoria Gonzalez Zambrano & Juana Valentina Moreno Rozo
Fig: 8 Perspective cross section
Description: Home, understood since its beginning with fire, around which the first communities of hunters and collectors congregated, reflects a feeling of protection and wellbeing. In the near future, its meaning has to be rethought in the concept of oasis, synonymous with community and life.
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Editor’s Choice: This O House
By: Zui Ng
Fig: 9 Site Plan and Image
Description: This O House proposes an affordable and sustainable design alternative to current gated townhouse developments in the historical Third Ward of Houston, Texas. Its design replaces the traditional view of a house as consumption with a new concept that a house can generate income and energy to sustain homeownership.
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Editor’s Choice: Graphis Homefutura
By: Adam Newman & Kelvin Tsang
Fig: 10 Section Plan
Description: The gritty inner west of Melbourne town – Footscray – in the not too distant future. A hotbed of multiculturalism - language, cuisine, customs, and community. In the throes of anthropogenic climate change, a model is developed for the dense and accretive habitation of urban greyfield sites...................................
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Editor’s Choice: The Exodus
By: Salem Bader & Ahmed Bader
Fig: 11 Section and Structure Concept
Description: Inspired by human nature to move, and explore; our proposal addresses stability in instability. Whether people aspire for an opportunity, to move, or to reconcile with the natural world, or people are forcibly moved due to a natural or a manmade disaster. Our proposal is adaptable to a variety of conditions, based on the location chosen by the users.
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Organizer’s Choice: HUMAN NATURE SYNERGY
By: Corina Sandescu & Nicolae Baciu
Fig: 12 Cover image
Description: The project addresses the problem of living in a very condensed city, which in our opinion becomes more stressful by each day. Returning back to the roots, living in nature and trying to perceive the time in its natural habitat, but in a contemporary way, is the thing that our project approaches.
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