The Glass Nursery: How Is Our Future Home Designed To Cope With The Depletion Of Natural Resources ?

This project is a visualisation of our future home in the next 300 years; when today’s gross loss of 15.6 billion trees per year (Crowther, 2015) is predicted to bring complete depletion of timber resources by 2319 (PollutionSolutions-online, 2015). Being the core material in furniture production and building construction (Radkau, 2012), the industry will turn to alternative materials in order to cope with this problem, one as abundant as sand in the course of global desertification (Huang, 2020). Subsequently, the ‘norm’ in interior design and the idea of a living space we are familiar with would also change. In 2322, we would find ourselves and our families living in homes furnished with glass furniture, such as the nursery visualised below. Our perception of comfort and danger while using glass in a space made for children could alter to adapt to reality; or we could prevent this future from today by changing our habits and usage of finite materials such as timber.