Designing with Purpose: Architectural Responses to the Modern Homes Forecast 2025

This session will delve into how James Hardie’s Modern Homes Forecast 2025 has identified influential lifestyle themes—such as building efficiency, wellbeing, flexibility and resilience—and how these themes are being translated into innovative, future-ready home styles. We’ll explore how shifts in global and local drivers are prompting new approaches in material selection, spatial planning and sustainable design, ensuring that homes not only meet but exceed client expectations in a rapidly evolving market.

Learning objectives

By the end of this presentation, you should be able to:

• Understand how global and local STEEP (Societal, Technological, Environmental, Economic and Political) factors are driving changes in Australian housing design.
• Identify and explain the four major lifestyle themes shaping modern residential architecture: building efficiency, wellbeing, flexibility and resilience.
• Evaluate existing and emerging home design styles and architectural strategies to enhance affordability, wellness, sustainability, resilience and adaptability in modern homes.
• Utilise key research findings to inform design decisions, material selection and client consultations.

Speaker:

Sarah Rogers – Territory Manager – Northern Victoria & NSW Riverina, James Hardie