Trends in Architecture

Trends that will shape the future of architecture

“Every architect is – necessarily – a great
poet. He must be a great original
interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
- Frank Llyod Wright
Introduction
• When we think about the future, how do we envision the
built environment? But we can see now that the future is
closer than we might think – current projects are already
answering the imagined needs and desires of the next
generation. From a tower with rotating floors to a park with
the ability to cleanse raw sewage.
Architecture of tomorrow (archdaily)
• Hypnotic Bridges (Changsha
Bridge)
• Undulating design.
• The design involves three individual
swirling lanes hovering over the
picturesque landscape of Changsha.
• Served as a pedestrian footbridge.
• Above the Dragon King Harbour River in
China.
• Product by NEXT Architects.
Architecture of tomorrow (archdaily)
• Indoor Parks (Zaryadye Park)
• four landscape typologies; tundra, steppe,
forest, and wetland.
• Augmented micro-climate to function as
public space throughout Russia’s winter
extremes.
• The quasi-indoor environments will
involve regulated temperatures, controlled
wind and simulated daylight 24/7.
• “Zaryadyes Park will embody the past and
the future simultaneously.
Architecture of tomorrow
• Invisible Architecture
• Also known as Science-fiction design.
• “the invisibility illusion will be achieved
with a high-tech LED façade system that
uses a series of cameras that will send
real-time images onto the building’s
reflective surface.”
• The parallelogram-shaped barn would be
made of wood and sheeted with mirror
film.
• “Blur the perceptual boundary” between
object and sitting.
Architecture of tomorrow
• Natural Disaster-Proof Forts
• Designed dreamlike, futuristic forts made
from iron and concrete, fusing the role of
artist with architect, engineer, and urban
planner.
• Edificies – the hybrid of a beach house, a
bunker and a space ship.
• Designed for the residents of Dauphin
Island, located at the coast of Alabama in
the Gulf of Mexico, which the tiny
landmass is known for experiencing
catastrophic hurricanes.
Architecture of tomorrow
• Sweaters for Skyscrapers
• A proposal for Burj Khalifa building is a
thick tank’s bizarre to cover the towering
skyscraper in a giant fabric casing made of
reflective material.
• Project: EXO-BURJ
• Sock-like covering would wrap around the
entire building from spire to ground level.
• “super-lightweight, reflective, and semi-
transparent fabric material”
• The temporary “sweater” would reflect the
expansive urban scenes around it, turning
the Burj Khalifa into a massive mirror.
Architecture of tomorrow
• Green Power Plants
• To beautify the eyesore of power plants and to
provide a new way of dealing with CO2
emissions.
• Wrapped the building with corrugated skin of
creeper plants.
• This strategically-placed skin would not only
soften the exterior aesthetic of the plant, but it
would create a sheath of creepers to absorb
CO2 emissions.
• “an attempt to resolve the conflict between the
natural ecology and manmade environment.”
• Designed by AZPA (Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Arquitecture)
Architecture of tomorrow
• Floating Pools
• designed by Archie Lee Coates IV, Dong-
Ping Wong and Jeff Franklin.
• An experimental planned 164 foot Pool.
• A giant infiltration system to the murky
waters between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Architecture of tomorrow
• Sci-fi Skylines
• Chinese architecture firm MAD, unveiled
renderings of Chaoyang Park Plaza.
• A center of skyscrapers, office blocks, and
public spaces meant to mimic the appearance
of mountains, hills, and lakes depicted in
Chinese landscape paintings.
• The complex is now under construction in
Beijing, and will an expansive sky line
seemingly ripped from the pages of a futuristic
novels.
• "The forms of the buildings echo what is found
in natural landscapes, and re-introduces nature
to the urban realm."
• References
• www.architizer.com
• www.rostek.fi
• www.architectmagazine.com
Submitted by:
Mateo, Haden
Mopada, Johnny
Pinca, Joshua