The Futureproof Home: Design for Conscious Living maps the emerging mandate for residential architecture that is built not just for now, but for the full arc of how we live — through modularity, frugality, mobility, hybridity, and communality across 320 pages of documented practice.
About This Book
The domestic upheavals of recent years have forced architects and clients alike to reckon with a simple truth: the house must do more than shelter. It must adapt. The Futureproof Home draws together residential projects that take this seriously, presenting conscious design as a discipline rooted in site, material, and time. Each project is selected for its demonstration of a specific adaptive strategy — spaces that can be reconfigured, expanded, shared, or repurposed across a lifetime of occupation. For practitioners working in sustainable residential design, this is a survey of the field's most thoughtful current thinking, grounded in built outcomes rather than speculation.
Key Features
- 320 pages of documented residential case studies with design strategy analysis
- Features work from Leopold Banchini Architects, EX FIGURA, Trower Falvo Architects, KOSMOS, BUREAU, and more
- Published by FRAME, 2020
What You'll Discover
- How modularity and mobility are being applied in contemporary housing to enable long-term spatial adaptability
- The role of frugality as a design principle — doing more with less material, energy, and footprint without sacrificing livability
- How hybridity and communality are reshaping the residential brief, blurring boundaries between home, workspace, studio, and shared space
- A consciousness of temporality as a core design value: building for the land, the materials, and the lives that will inhabit a home over time
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 210 x 270 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789492311627
- Publisher: FRAME
- Publication Date: 2020
Perfect For: Architects and interior designers working in residential practice, sustainability researchers, housing academics, and design-conscious clients rethinking how their home might evolve alongside their lives.