The House for the Future

Project - The House For The Future
Client - National Museum Wales
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson

This is where design for sustainability all started for the attic 2 Studio


We were commissioned to work on the furniture and interior concept for the Museum of Welsh Life project, House For The Future working with London architects and winner of the House For The Future architecture competition and Redrow house buliders sponsors and builders of the actual house within the grounds of the Museum, Cardiff.

The project was our first real intensive sustainable design project - where every design solution threw up a whole new set of environmental challenges and every twist and turn in the project questioned the sustainable viability. The result was an innovative approach to the design of products for living in the future - without the 'oats and muesli' aesthetics and an over-dependence on hi-technology.

This project was filmed from start to end and beyond by BBC Wales as a TV series The House For The Future where they introduced a real life family to live in and test drive the house for a few weeks. Some of solutions and ideas were more successful than others but what we learned from this point on was as designers we were responsible and that we must design with sustainability and a focus on the future at the core. This was the start of design for sustainability for the attic 2 Studio. This is where we began to shape our 'Future-Thinking' sustainable and environmental policy.