As per the COP21, 2015 Mankind needs to reduce greenhouse gas emission in such extent that global warming could limit up to 1.5 °C to avoid dangerous impact of Climate Change on Earth. And, this could be achieved by creating at least 33% green cover on our planet. 3% of the world’s land surface is covered with urban areas or we can say with buildings. Today, I am advocating for making these 3% covers green, carbon-neutral and energy self-sufficient for the future generation. I want to see the integration of homes with nature. If you go back to time, you’ll reach where human used to live with nature and wild. Do not misunderstand me, I’m not asking you to take U-turn while asking for integrating the auspicious taste of past to the future. Imagine the day, with no electricity and water bills. I don’t mean, go and live in the wild but create energy self-sufficient, carbon-neutral homes. The homes, enlighten by sun, air-conditioned by wind, watered by rain, feed by backyard and entertain you by its walls. Ya, it will. Before all lets go back to time to have dive into “Ancient World” & its civilization”…

There is reason, an strong reason. I’m advocating about the integration of human inhabitants with nature. This isn’t the only notion of integration our lives with nature but their are so many other ideas emerging so fast in modern age e.g. Integrated Farming: an emerging agriculture practice of joining the variety of agricultural activities as a whole. Neuralink: integrating human & machine intelligence. And, Blockchain: a new-edge of peer-to-peer connection. We are dependent upon nature not just for quenching our thirst and meeting our hunger for even breadth so, don’t you think? The time has came to integrate our livings & lives with nature rather only harnessing its natural resources. We are heading towards the Population Collapse according to Elon Musk at the same time statistics says, we had 34% wasteland in year 1950-51 which has been reduced to 23% in year 2010-11 [1]. These facts eventually led mankind to their new homes of the future. Let’s enter to them one by one:

First & foremost, lets look at world’s most amazing & extraordinary concept of building homes…

Now, We’ll enter to houses of the future, one by one…

1.0 Eco Home: The house with no power, water & sewer connection, what makes it most energy self-sufficient; have a look…

2.0 The Minimum Viable Home (MVH): A greatest example of sustainable living without fossil fuels, electricity and water connection and market daily needs, Have a look…

3.0 Self-sustainable, zero waste productive home: A look to future food, vertical farming, aquaponic, hydroponic, fisheries, aquaculture all in a house. Have a look…

4.0 Dome house integrated with ground: The house under the ground, Have a look…

5.0 Modern day Cave House: An example of positive wave in negative space and world’s best place to look at stars. Have a look…

6.0 Earthship Home: The home made-off waste materials e.g. tires, cans & the house which has live-walls. Have a look…

7.0 COB House: The house of ancient style but modern approach. Have a look…

8.0 Mud House: Similar to COB House but Indian Indian touch making it different. Have a look…

9.0 3D Printed Portable/Fold-able Home: The architecture of future for instant habitation or for temporary in-habitation. Have a look…

10. Polystyrene Dome Houses: Limitless possibilities, endless variations, Highly durable, earthquake resistance and energy efficient. Perfect for emerging age. Have a look…

11. Space saving furniture technologies of the coming inhabitants: Smart furniture would revolutionize the future homes. Have a look…

12. Biophilic Design: Architecture of the future. The architecture witch itself improve human health and heal to our mother nature. Have a look…

So, what exactly we need to learn about building our homes in future…

Live walls: When, we talk about 3 E’s: Energy, Environment & Element. Environment of our surrounding matters a lot. Walls of your home should not be dead, I mean without any creative painting, artwork or attractive design & geometry. Aquarium walls & walls with vertical farming ideas, which makes our home food self-sufficient and carbon neutral and natural healer is going to be trend of the future homes.

Energy self-sufficient: It means building of such creative architectures, which can meet their power requirement by itself, naturally. by using solar grid or wind mills or any other engineering hacks.

Food self-sufficient: Biophilic design, which is emerging as an architecture of the future makes building food self-sufficient. This is something, which integrate nature and micro-agriculture (e.g. vertical farming, aquaponic, hydroponic) with human inhabitants.

Naturally enlightened: The idea is when sun is their, you should never ever be needed to lit-up the electricity bulbs. But, if it is not being possible to create natural ventilation for natural lighting you may go for ‘optical fibers‘ the new way to bring natural lights to your space through cables.

Naturally air-conditioned: Present day air-conditioners (ACs) are the biggest contributor to global warming, no matter we have shifted from CFC’s to ammonia in use but eventually they are making outside environment warm. Though, we need to develop lot more sustainable means in this arena but at the moment we can do it by choosing breathing constructional material (e.g. Mud house, COB house), creating natural waterfall, underground basement area, where you can feel adverse effect of atmosphere.

Homes with no water bills: It doesn’t mean you dig a well or tube-well in your courtyard, that is not a sustainable solution at all. I’m talking about Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting, which should be integral part of your home architecture. Lets understand its statistics: If your home has terrace area of about 1600 ft² and you are living in Punjab state of India where you receive, average annual rainfall of 650 mm [2]. So, end of the year, you can store 96616 liters of water. And, as per the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs data, per capita water consumption in India is 135 liters[3]. So, a family of 4 members can live without any other sources of water for almost 179 days which is around 6 months. Even, we can go beyond, when it comes to reusing of Kitchen & Bathroom water for gardening purposes. We can even use our sewage water after some natural treatment for backyard or courtyard gardening.

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