Old places

This documentary with three episodes made me think about the outdating of our homes. There are new houses being built to serve the needs of past centuries, for example the agricultural era, even though for most of us our lifestyles have changed a lot since then.



All design can get outdated. That is the point of building new, to make it more relevant than before. What I think the future needs is:

1. More physical diversity indoors
We sit too much because there are too many places we have to sit. The indoors could have the same mentality than outside in the nature, and have different layers, hills and pits. We could also for example add more standing desks and longer tables to hang out and be productive indoors for long hours while not having to sit.

2. Saving money and energy
Many of us live in in too big apartments.

3. More village spirit
We lack a sense of community, because our communication is more online than offline these days. We need to develop attractive meeting spots for suburbs and cities.

There should be more a energy and cost efficient, small homes built in cities that have a public area, which brings the community together and to co-operate. Overall, changes in all areas of life can affect on how we should build new housing, and we should always be designing to for the life we live now and for the years to come and question the previous model.