The kitchen is now at the heart of home design, and Uber Eats is making the kitchen smaller for apartment tenants.
We share cars, install removable walls, create social spaces in residential buildings, and swim in removable pools.
Characteristic walls now become characteristic ceilings, with curves replacing straight lines in some of the best architectural designs.
The future of Australian home design is a dynamic space.
Adam Haddow, director of SJB, Sydney's architecture and urban design studio, says the current buzzword for residential design is diversity.
"in the past, we had a fixed concept of a house-three bedrooms, a backyard, and maybe a swimming pool," Haddow said. Haddow received a Churchill Scholarship and is an Australian thought leader in urban design and modern evolution of the urban living environment.
"it hasn't gone away, but many people realize they don't need lawn weeding and four bedrooms."
"you used to need a table, maybe an office; now you just need a kitchen counter that fits your laptop, or a sunny courtyard with the Internet.
"these changes are affecting home design because we don't need to create space (for learning / work); it's more about creating space where people want to live."
In a recent 2019 McGrath report, we revealed the hottest trends in urban residential design this year.
-purpose of life change-
When Australia accepted open home design in the early 21st century, it was inevitable that something would disappear. There are no more formal restaurants and living rooms. There was a time when the popular media room was gone.
As a result, there was a study or home office, where at least 3.5 million Australians work at home, while nearly 1 million of us operate businesses at home.
Future housing will be more flexible, reflecting the shrinking size of only couples living in Australia, as by 2030 there will be more childless couples than couples with children. Use more removable walls to convert rooms, flexible furniture will be able to separate rooms.
-glamour kitchen-
The kitchen is still at the heart of our family, Haddow points out, but it has moved from a grocery space to a space for social and entertainment banquets.
Open graphic layouts bring once-separated kitchens to living and dining areas, usually with a sizeable island table that creates a meeting point for guests so that they can chat with their host as they prepare their meals.
The ready kitchen and butler pantry are the latest trends in high-end home design.
As showcased on this year's Reality Show The Block luxury Family Apartments, these separate private spaces make home chefs not afraid of places to mess up, stay out of sight of guests and do not affect their banquet kitchens.
-the kitchen of the apartment is getting smaller and smaller-
Did Uber Eats shrink the kitchen? The popularity of family food delivery, as well as our growing culture of cafes and restaurants, especially in big cities, change gives Australians a view of the kitchen in the new millennium.
Food delivery apps like Deliveroo,Menulog and Uber Eats have grown explosion-like, with Australians spending $2.6 billion a year.
These trends are affecting the extent to which the design of modern homes is being used to prepare food, especially in apartments where couples and singles live in short periods of time, and more people are choosing Uber Eats, rather than preparing their own food.
So they no longer need a well-equipped kitchen.
Today, a trend in new developments is beautiful public kitchens and dining areas, where residents can rent to entertain guests and have smaller but functional kitchens in their apartments.
-Garage parking-
Our car-loving culture is changing rapidly, with 3.1 million active users of Uber (Uber) and 1000000 members of GoGet in the country.
These shared services, along with expanded public transport networks, environmental awareness and dedicated bicycle lanes, are reducing property demand for parking spaces.
More small residential designs will give up parking, Haddow said. "what we see is that there will be fewer and fewer people owning cars in the near future. Sharing cars is becoming more and more acceptable. "
Sydney City Council figures show that the use of, Kent Street bike tracks has increased by 500% since 2008. More and more apartment buildings support the sharing of bicycle houses or bicycle racks among owners of bicycles.
-Creative thinking-
Textured exterior walls made of recyclable natural or industrial materials such as rammed earth, stone and glass bricks are now very popular.
Architects have also abandoned traditional squares, curved facades to create a sense of space, and spherical structures to simulate ice-house thermal efficiency.
In the 16th century Michelangelo painted church ceilings and 18th-century French Queen Marie Antoinette was decorated with mirrors on the ceilings and was popular for a time, but the cost was too high to sustain the trend.
Some homeowners and designers today have brought the design back to life, Haddow said, realizing that the ceiling is a blank canvas that can inject individuality and texture into the house.
Watch out for the new wave of swimming pools that rise above the ground. Removable, water depth to waist characteristics, suitable for limited inner city space, can be used flexibly in the four seasons.
-Green Home-
Sustainability is becoming an important factor in residential design, with record levels of solar use and rising interest in battery power, bringing the number of households using renewable energy to 8.28 million in 2017.
Smart developers and owners are renovating and renovating their homes to make them more attractive to increasingly eco-conscious buyers.
Low-cost renovations include windproof, insulation, small flow shower heads and faucets, sunshade windows and low watt lighting.
-your personal style-
Australians like to use their houses to reflect their lives and personalities. The "model house design" used in real estate marketing is often considered ideal, but the style is designed to appeal to the public. Your own property, when you live there, just needs to suit yourself. So, you can make bold choices, and I believe the real gain is to create the most suitable home environment for your own enjoyment, because it's where you live.