The Future of Design

As I began transitioning my career towards interior design, I enrolled at Istituto Marangoni Milano, where I was awarded a scholarship after presenting my vision of the future of design through three images.

After exploring different ideas, I kept returning to the story of Noah’s Ark and the idea of cycles — how nature, civilisation and the planet constantly transform and renew themselves. I became interested in the connection between the biblical flood and geological evidence of ancient flooding events, including sediment deposits and traces of former shorelines that reveal how dramatically water levels have changed throughout history.

This led me to imagine a future shaped by rising sea levels, environmental instability, housing shortages and globalisation. Rather than designing architecture that simply resists these changes, I imagined a new way of living with them.

The project proposes three adaptable homes designed for three radically different environments: water, mountains and desert. Together, they form the basis of new, mobile settlements that could adapt to changing landscapes and allow people to relocate as environmental conditions evolve.

A biblical passage inspires each house:
Water House — Genesis
Mountain House — Exodus
Desert House — Covenant