Country Life reports in ten imaginative children’s ideas for houses of the future that have been turned into modern 3D models to get a sense of what they’d really be like!
Country Life writes:
Everybody who has ever learned to hold a pencil has doodled a house on a scrap of paper. It’s one of the first things that young children do: first they make squiggles, then themselves and their families, and then the houses in which they live. The difference between architects and the rest of us is that they carry on doodling houses while the rest of us move on to drawing teddy bears, horses or giant robots with death ray eyes. It’s the way of the world.
But just as the truths spill from the mouths of babes, what if great home designs were to spill from their crayons? That was the starting point for some bright spark at made.com. They asked a group of children between the ages of four and 12 to come up with their dream home of the future – then got a grown-up architect to turn those doodles into the sort of glossy CGI mock-ups you see on builders’ websites.
It’s a lovely idea, and the results were fascinating. Many of the children created homes that feared for the environment – and it’s surely a good thing that the newest generation has its eye on that particular ball, given how badly the outgoing generations have dropped it. There were dark fears in some of the drawings: 12-year-old Kya from Esher designed a ‘stealth’ home that is a beautiful beach house by day but invisible at night. One day we’ll surely see something along those lines; perhaps our beloved country houses will become something like vintage cars are today – a curiosity and an anachronism, kept as a sort of living museum, while the bulk of the population embraces newer technology. And, truth be told, the 3D rendering of this idea has somehow retained a bit of charm. Plus this house also includes a library, games room, music studio and gym.
