For many, water is an element that can only be reached by traveling unless you own a backyard pool or a home spa. Soaking in water is a practice that is disappearing from city life, with increasingly expensive spas and apartments where bathtubs are being replaced by large, minimalist showers. Having "water in the house" will be the challenge for many and the most daring will delight us with incredible wet interiors. To inspire you, here is a selection of provocative projects where water has literally invaded the spaces.

There are many natural building materials to discover, from raw earth to straw, from rice to hemp, passing through natural plasters such as cocciopesto or quicklime. Few, however, have the evocative power of adobe, whose rounded, soft shapes are an antidote to depression. The walls of adobe are warm and comforting and many might choose this material - or at least this aesthetic - in their private spaces. 

With lockdown, we have partially freed ourselves from certain consumer logics, but above all from formality. Just think of all those zoom meetings interfered by children, background noise and pets. This liberation can also be observed in architecture, where fancy finishes give way to more spontaneous gestures, perhaps technically more crude, but certainly original. It is no longer necessary to have a pristine floor or impeccable joints by spending large capital, but to have a real and stimulating space where focus is somewhere else.

Dance died last year. Let's resurrect it. We should indulge with style in what is the entertainment par excellence, even if in very small groups in our homes. Let's revive couple dances or tribal rave dances in a suitable space: just two square meters and a minimum of reasoned lighting. Even chamber music was born in the private salons of the Seventeenth century when outside the walls of the palaces the plagues or religious repressions prevented the celebration of music in public. That period gave us back Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell and Antonio Vivaldi.

It's an old topic, but too much technology, too many smartphones, too much connection is bad, very bad. Netflix amiably reminded us of this, keeping us glued to its screens with documentaries that explained to us when it was wrong to be glued to screens (take The Social Dilemma). Providing a space - possibly with very thick walls - where we don't have phones, computers and routers so we can read, think, play, rest, do crafts, exercise, meditate and on and on will be an increasingly necessary choice. Filled with plants or completely bare, sci-fi or more domestic, this space goes far beyond a room for meditation. It is a space for the human.

But if our digital addiction is irreparable, we might as well make the best of it and equip ourselves with a space that suits our virtual egos. Let's equip ourselves with comfortable spaces and real sets to break through on Tick Tock, Only Fans and Instagram but also in our business meetings and on Teams. On this front we expect the highest virtuosity.

Archaic element, elevation to the divine. We know some very famous ones, from the steps of Villa Malaparte in Capri to the pink stairs of the Muralla Roja by Ricardo Bofill. The ones we will see go through interiors and lead nowhere. Sitting on a staircase to converse or meditate - even in domestic spaces - is a good way to change your perception of space and move differently. It stimulates balance and movement.

After last year's infinity terrazzo, here we are with the return of brick, which to tell the truth has never disappeared, but is now used in the same way, with a rough finish, seamless between walls, ceilings, floors, and built in furniture. As if our homes were transformed into an archaeological site, where the anxiety towards surface hygiene gives way to the evocative beauty of this eternal material.