Living with the Future

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This series follows presenter Simon Davis as he visits modern private homes built in recent years. He stays overnight to explore what it feels like to live in each building, focusing on their design and eco-friendly features.

informativearchitecturalcalmobservationalcuriousreflectivetasteful

What happens

Living with the Future is a television documentary series first broadcast on 15 January 2007 on BBC Four. It is a follow-up series to Living with Modernism, also on BBC Four. In each episode, presenter Simon Davis visits the owners of a private house, then stays overnight so he can comment on what the building is like to actually live in. The preceding series visited older "classic" buildings (1930s to 1970s) where modernity was the key feature. In this series, buildings have been constructed in the last few years and often rely on cutting-edge materials (the glass walls at "Skywood") and have "green" elements of re-use ("Quay House" is a rebuilt dairy) and efficiency ("Drop House" glazing and walls). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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