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Future Homes: Sustainable Innovative Designs
New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. Future Homes provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions, providing hope for the future. Broadly speaking these challenges came in three environmental, social, and economic. The challenges posed by climate change demand urgent consideration and response. But a change in methodology and the ingenious employment of technological advances offers solutions to these challenges. This book provides important examples of ways to meet the global challenges by using innovative concepts and practices, leading to a transformation of how residences will appear in the years to come. With sustainability as an overarching strategy for future retooling and design of our homes, it's worth taking a look at the new challenges we face and the ways they can be approached by stakeholders such as urban planners, architects, designers, builders, and individuals considering building their own home.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published December 8, 2022
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June 6, 2023
All indications are that people will house themselves differently in the coming decades, regardless of where they live. From a demographic perspective, the make-up of society in many nations is becoming much more diverse. Designs proposed by architects and constructed by builders need to be flexible and consider a wider range of household compositions, ages and living habits such as work-from-home and multigenerational arrangements.
Economic fluctuations also have taken their toll, affecting world markets as well as the lives of individuals as secure employment becomes less common. In addition, an "affordability gap" has emerged, where the increase in house prices has surpassed the increase in household income. This has made it highly difficult for first-time homebuyers to purchase a dwelling in most urban centers, increasing the demand for less expensive and smaller units. Home builders need to offer smaller dwellings that are more adaptable to buyers' space needs and budget.
Sustainability is increasingly important. The need to rethink design and construction practices in line with contemporary environmental constraints has taken center stage in recent years. Sustainable development strives to meet social and economic needs without exhausting the resources of future generations. It requires a reduction of the impact of housing on natural resources, both in materials used and energy expended. The use of net-zero and solar-powered homes, innovative ventilation technologies, green roofs, healthy indoor materials, recycled products and water-efficient systems have increased in response.
The challenges posed by climate change demand urgent consideration and response. The negative environmental impacts of urban sprawl and the single-family home development have given rise to a call for "densification" and the building of denser mixed-use developments.
The world is going down, the presence of humans and sustainability have always been at odds and striving to reduce our ecological footprint is essentially impossible. What seems as sustainable actually produces equal or even greater amounts of toxins in the end. Increase in density is not because of more humans, but because what was affordable in the past is no longer the case, so the life standards of all middle-class are unilaterally decreasing to feed the upper-class who ultimately become more elite.
Economic fluctuations also have taken their toll, affecting world markets as well as the lives of individuals as secure employment becomes less common. In addition, an "affordability gap" has emerged, where the increase in house prices has surpassed the increase in household income. This has made it highly difficult for first-time homebuyers to purchase a dwelling in most urban centers, increasing the demand for less expensive and smaller units. Home builders need to offer smaller dwellings that are more adaptable to buyers' space needs and budget.
Sustainability is increasingly important. The need to rethink design and construction practices in line with contemporary environmental constraints has taken center stage in recent years. Sustainable development strives to meet social and economic needs without exhausting the resources of future generations. It requires a reduction of the impact of housing on natural resources, both in materials used and energy expended. The use of net-zero and solar-powered homes, innovative ventilation technologies, green roofs, healthy indoor materials, recycled products and water-efficient systems have increased in response.
The challenges posed by climate change demand urgent consideration and response. The negative environmental impacts of urban sprawl and the single-family home development have given rise to a call for "densification" and the building of denser mixed-use developments.
The world is going down, the presence of humans and sustainability have always been at odds and striving to reduce our ecological footprint is essentially impossible. What seems as sustainable actually produces equal or even greater amounts of toxins in the end. Increase in density is not because of more humans, but because what was affordable in the past is no longer the case, so the life standards of all middle-class are unilaterally decreasing to feed the upper-class who ultimately become more elite.
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