2024: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE TRENDS

Author: ANDRIY CHEY

Articles

24.01.24

The 23rd year has made us forget about the word “stability”. The world is transforming faster and faster, and so is our life. We are going to tell you how the home is changing, what innovations in construction and trends in interior design in 2024 are waiting for us right now.

INCLUSIVENESS

Unstable times give rise to people with diverse manifestations and special needs. Public space should be ergonomic and convenient for everyone, and now it has a significant impact on the interior trends of private homes.

Inclusive solutions include barrier-free access to any part of the building for people with disabilities, switches and control panels at a meter from the floor, braille, sloping staircases, low bathrooms and toilets, baby feeding rooms in public places, predictable organization of buildings, corridors and transitions between rooms or blocks of the building, etc.

All this inclusivity base will be of great importance in 2024 for the organization of a space that is friendly to everyone.

TECHNOLOGY FOR SECURITY

This now applies not only to our homeland, where the war has been going on for two years, but also to other countries. Cells of danger are breaking out here and there. This is the worst manifestation of instability. Modern building projects should take this into account – your home should really become your fortress, as well as a reliable shelter and refuge.

Israel has the greatest experience in this, where they build walls and ceilings of increased strength, plan basements that can be used as bomb shelters, and often even with air filtration and radiation protection systems.

SEARCHING FOR ROOTS

In unstable times, people are saved by their identity – an understanding of who they really are. An analysis of the main modern trends in interior design has shown that today more and more people from different countries and continents are returning to the roots of their cultures, local traditions, customs, and values. All of this is reflected in the home.

Houses and interiors in a reimagined national style are multiplying in Asian and Arab countries, and Europe and the United States are gradually joining the trend.

THIRST FOR VALUE

Instability forces us to abandon the accumulation of numerous empty things in favor of smaller, but more valuable and meaningful ones. Apartment design 2024 is about minimalism, but also about a deeper trend – the desire to possess not form, but essence.

Collection design will become even more popular this year. Furniture as art objects, unique items that turn any space into an artistic environment – all this is gaining more and more value among gallerists, designers, and consumers alike.

ARTISTIC VISION

In 2023, the media broadcast more design projects than in the entire past decade combined. But unfortunately, almost all of them were identical, indistinguishable from each other, as if they were made under a copy. This pushes people to look for something unique, authentic, and unlike anything else. The modern apartment design 2024 is a field for artists, creators with a special look and style.

In 2024, the “new Gaudís” will be valued no less than the followers of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Extraordinary metamodernist forms and solutions, a fantastic Martian palace or a fairy-tale forest hut with “dancing windows” – there will be more and more of such architecture. But in reality, this will be more clearly expressed in the tendency to experiment and search for new forms.

ECO-FUTURE

The list of instabilities is headed by the most global one – environmental. Green technologies, natural recreation, and eco-futurism as a worldview have become more widely accepted this year than ever before. This is reflected in the growing interest in this trend in architecture around the world. The top materials for the interior, according to the latest trends, are wood, clay, stone, and anything that will help emphasize the connection with nature.

“Living” hygroscopic clay walls that block harmful electromagnetic radiation instead of vinyl wallpaper; solid bog oak floors instead of linoleum, hemp blocks instead of silicate bricks – these are all about new standards for homes. About humanity returning to nature and health, but with comfort and quality of life.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The topic of the year that added instability to the vision of the future of design and architecture in general. Will AI replace humans? How will artificial intelligence affect current trends in architecture? Will biological and technological brains compete?

We invite you to find the answers to these most interesting questions yourself in the coming year. After all, we are preparing some AI stuff for you, among other things. See you in 2024!