200 years ago, Goodwood Manor in the United Kingdom was famous for the top jockey club Goodwood, and recently, Goodwood has transformed into a large dog festival that attracts celebrities from the global pet industry - Goodwoof.
The inaugural two-day festival crammed the estate with tens of thousands of people with more than 10,000 dogs of all breeds and sizes.
The world's top dog athletes come here to kick off the race; free animal health workshops by canine behaviorists, veterinarians and trainers; talks on dog pop culture, exhibitions commemorating historical heroes and dogs, and a host of games, food, cinemas and other social events.
Since then, Goodwoof has become one of the most famous pet events in the world.
Next, go straight to the most talked about part of the festival , barkitecture of the "Dog House Design Award".
Renowned Foster Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners in the UK, and LoveFrom, the new company of former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, all come together to compete.
The final auction raised £30,000 for their competition, all donated to pet charity Dog's Trust.
These innovative kennel buildings reflect our increasingly intimate relationship with dogs.
Behind it is more noteworthy, and our long-term neglect of pet home design.
Dog building competition, creativity exploded!
The works completed by the world's top architectural teams were sent to Goodwood Manor to participate in the campaign.
The design, construction and procurement of these works is open, with a budget of no more than £250, all in order to make the entries more grounded and popular.
There were 17 finalists, all of whom participated in the auction, and we selected 10 unique ones to share (the winners were revealed at the end).
【Dome-Home】
Design Team: Foster + Partners
It was also one of the most high-profile pieces in the competition, Foster + Partners called out to the British furniture manufacturer Benchmark, who made the house by hand from cherry wood.
Its exterior uses a geodesic structure, which presents a wonderful geometric shape, like a glowing polygonal prism, and like an "alien egg".
Directly in front of the house, there is a rectangular opening, which is also the entrance to the dog's entrance, and all the space inside is wrapped in removable soft fabric.
This avant-garde and bold style, which is very "Foster + Partners" at a glance, is also its biggest highlight in terms of visual cutting-edge.
The fly in the ointment is that the slightly squeezed space, although it seems safe, may not be suitable for all dogs, because it is impossible to stand up in it, but it may be suitable for corgi (not to look down on corgi).
【The Nook House】
Design Team: Stanton Williams
This is a dog house for urban workers.
In our 20 to 30 square meters rental house, every inch of space is important and every square meter is expensive, so this dog house is designed as a multi-functional "furniture complex" - it is both a chair and a table, and at the same time a dog's house.
At the same time, it can also be easily disassembled and assembled, and most importantly, dogs can squat on the table or lie under the table, and the masters can stick and kiss, and the heads can be shaken without getting tired.
It can be said that "one arrow is more than one eagle".
【Simple House Love From】
Design Team: LoveFrom
This is the work created by Jony Ive, former chief designer of Apple, and Marc Nelson.
They broke with the traditional concept of a dog house, reducing the structure to an open shelter, then struttened with plastic materials, soft quilts on the bottom, and a stainless steel dog bowl outside the house.
It's still the familiar simplicity, smooth geometric lines, soft edges that look extremely comfortable.
In order to make the dog more compatible with the environment inside, I want to wear an Apple AirTag on its neck.
The Doge's House
Design Team: Linley
It was the highest-priced dog house at auction at £6,000. This was followed by Foster + Partners' £4,600 auction, and the third place at auction price was LoveFrom's £3,800.
The price doesn't exactly define the level of the work, but the exact opposite of LoveFrom's dog house is that Doge's House is gorgeous and complex, and the cost may be much more expensive.
Inspired by the Venetian Doge's Palace, it creates the same Venetian Gothic style decoration, and also complements the luxurious and exclusive interior, which looks both spectacular and sophisticated.
Perhaps the future blind date of dogs, this "dog world mansion", can also more or less prove the strong strength of the family behind it.
【House of the Future Dog Pod】
Design Team: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners
It was inspired by Star Wars, which the team calls designed for the "space dogs" of the future.
A hexagonal panel in front of the doghouse collapsed, turning into a "starship boarding ramp", making it look more like a boarding barn.
The exterior of the aluminium shell sleeve forms a natural shade canopy, and there are four elevated structures under the feet, so that the dog house can be kept cool by the airflow in the summer and warm in the winter.
This is where the Dog Pod innovates: it effectively solves the temperature problem of the dog house.
After all, not every dog's dog is born in the cold and heat and can have air conditioning to blow.
【House of Harmony Doggy Dome】
Design team: Alice Wilson
What makes this dog house special is that it is a small litter suitable for multiple dogs.
Alice is one of them, she has a small greyhound and a slender Whippet, in order to allow them to live in harmony in a litter, Alice uses half-log strips of different diameters to intersect, combined into two hemispherical shapes overlapping in one piece, one large and one small.
The little greyhound can enter the small door from the gate and sleep inside, while the Whippet can only enter the gate, and the two dogs can sleep well in different spaces, avoiding the cramped space.
It is also very easy to assemble, and everyone can choose different wooden strips to customize according to the height of their dogs.
At this point, every dog can feel at home.
Le Dogular, the Zero Waste Kennel
Design Team: Hopkins
2019, the centenary of the Bauhaus movement, is behind the modernist style that has swept the world, highlighting the essence of design, pure minimalism, and still influencing generations of people, including the architects of Hopkins.
Their zero-waste kennels were full of dog lovers, and that's when the team pondered how the Bauhaus initiator Le Corbusier would still be able to design a dog house.
Based on this, they created this dog house that values geometric shapes, proportions and exceptional harmony, and privacy and comfort as the core principles.
Its shape is bold and simple, simple and clean, everyone can personalize it with their favorite color, and the plywood is affordable, lightweight and quick to assemble.
Arguably, this is an unrestricted free dog house.
Alfie's Attention
Design team: Joseph Ellwood, Six Dots Design
This dog house is even wilder.
It is a polyhedral shape with a pine structure that looks like an interstellar detector, but it is also designed to satisfy the curiosity and challenge of dogs.
In this design team, there is an energetic Springer Spaniel Alfie. The owner can freely adjust the height of the dog house, set a threshold for the dog to jump in, the dog roof is empty, the owner can also set some small challenges, let the dog get snacks from the top, etc., train the dog's sense of smell, dexterity and patience.
This dog house can bring more curious dogs an exciting and interesting experience, after all, each dog may have a hunter hidden in its body.
One Woman and Her Dog
Design Team: Hawkes Architecture
"A lot of people design dog houses that often overlook the real needs of dogs," says Hawkes Architecture.
They also had a puppy, Star, during the epidemic, and originally planned to make various sleeping boxes and nests for him, but in the end the dog still likes to sleep in bed, "In fact, what every dog desires most is to be close to his family."
In the end, they directly designed a dog's "motorhome", which was made entirely of waste and built into a mobile motorhome where the owner and the dog could play together.
There are also two buckets on either side of the caravan, and when the owner and dog ride it to any place, the bucket can also provide clean water, and the caravan can also be a temporary shelter.
Making the building an interesting space for people and dogs to go in both directions is probably where it is clever.
The house that understands the dog's heart the most is probably this one.
【Bonehenge】
Design team: Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects
As is customary in all competitions, the winner is revealed at the end.
Yes, it's here, and this dog house designed by Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects is number one.
It was built for Illy, an English Cocker Spaniel who joined the construction team in 2014 and brings endless joy and energy to the office staff.
So they built this cabin for Illy. The entire house is made of bone-shaped wooden strips, light and airy, the dog can enjoy plenty of sunlight when he enters, and the material is sturdy and sustainable, and the team calls it "not bad for 50 years" - looking like an heirloom potential.
Interestingly, it has a water collection tray design on the top that can replenish Illy's water when she is thirsty, and when the dog house is outdoors, it can also collect fresh rainwater for stray dogs.
When the judges scored the work, they also considered a number of criteria, such as the exquisite design, the sustainability of the materials and use, the comprehensiveness of the dog's sensory and life needs, and so on.
In fact, each family has its own strengths, but it is difficult to do everything.
The design of these dog houses is actually a microcosm of human housing.
Inside is the dog's living space, outside is our living space, in this seemingly limited miniature building, in fact, more can collide with unexpected inspiration, but the practice is not simple.
As dogs and humans become more and more closely related, we can also get more inspiration from the ideas of these designs to live with pets.
Architecture also needs to be "dog-oriented"
For centuries, the British tended to put their dogs above everything.
Charles Richmond, Duke of Richmond, said that dogs have been an important part of their family for centuries, and dogs can always be seen in the family portraits of each generation of dukes.
▲ Portrait of the third-generation Duke of Richmond and his Cocker Spaniel
In 1787, the third Duke of Richmond built a house for his dog, The Kennels, and installed a "central heating system" in it, where servants built a fire outside the house, and warmth could be transmitted to the interior through large metal plates inlaid with walls, The Kennels was also known as "the most luxurious dog house in the world".
The Kennels is now a members' club CREDIT – Clive Boursnell
As the most loyal companion of human beings, dogs are all in our lives, both in history and in the present.
iResearch's "2021 China Pet Consumption Trend White Paper" also shows that in 2020, the market size of the mainland pet industry will be nearly 300 billion yuan, and it is expected to rise to 445.6 billion yuan in 2023.
There are more and more young people who own pets, and they are growing rapidly.
▲ Image from: thehustle.co
But in the common living space of dogs and humans, we may have become accustomed to most things, but many may be the place where dogs are uneasy or even miserable.
For example, dogs like to live in caves, and dogs like to live in caves, they have their own emotions, and they need their own personal space.
For example, every year Chinese New Year's Eve the lively moment when fireworks and firecrackers in the sky resound in the sky, it is precisely the moment when dogs tremble with fear and bark loudly, because they are sensitive to hearing and can hear sounds four times farther than people. They are very afraid of noise.
For example, dogs are not sensitive enough to color discrimination, and can only see part of the color range, such as blue, gray, yellow, etc., so the colorful environment we bother to create for them is actually of little significance.
"People love pets in large part because they accept themselves unconditionally," said Harold Herzog, an American psychologist who said that dogs not only accept humans unconditionally, but also depend on people and are accustomed to accepting everything we give.
Dogs have been passively adapting to the human environment since they were domesticated from wolves to human friends, and their homes have become appendages of human space design.
As more and more inclusive design begins to improve our lives, perhaps we can also make these little friends live more and more comfortably.
▲ Korean brand Bad Marlon Studio designed a home for modern pets
In fact, in recent years, we can see that the concept of "pet friendly" has appeared more and more in our daily life, travel, and various pet products.
From a small example - in 2019, Ford used the car's noise reduction technology to create a noise-canceling kennel that can protect dogs from fireworks and allow them to sleep well during the New Year's Festival.
A larger example – last year, an innovative "kennel" was built at the southernmost tip of Aranya.
Through the staggered superposition mode, the kennel created 30 "boxes", which solved the problem of easy conflict between dogs and dogs after encountering, and avoided the eyes of dogs and dogs with triangular outlines, and the interior design was more conducive to dogs living independently.
Moving forward, behind the pet-friendly design, in 2012 Hara launched a special project "Architecture for Dogs", and continued to travel around the world for the next 10 years.
This has also helped many people to re-emphasize the living space of dogs.
Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, Kazuyo Sejima, Toyo Ito, and other well-known figures in the architectural/design community in Japan, such as Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Toyo Ito, as well as Ma Iwamatsu in Japan, are involved in the project.
They created 16 architectural designs and published a DIY drawing manual for everyone to work together to create a better home for their dogs.
▲Designed by the Dog Bark Studio
One of the key ideas proposed by the project is: scale balance.
When Hara was seven or eight years old, he had a Japanese silver fox dog Chibi, he made a wooden nest for Chibi, but Chibi never lived inside, but always lay on the roof of the hut, he observed for a long time, only to know that Chibi has been lying on the roof, because he can always see the owner's eyes.
▲ Kenya Hara designed the work so that dogs can look up at humans, because most humans and dogs get along, they need to look up at their owners tiredly.
Human beings have always designed their surrounding environment according to their own yardsticks, such as the height of stairs, tables, chairs, doors and other documents, which are determined based on the premise of human beings' own conditions.
Hara believes that if the environment is observed and imagined according to the perspective and scale of dogs, it may be able to open new doors for dogs and human architecture.
▲Kazuyo Sejima design
It is true that in real life, either we do not pay attention to the kennel at all, such as most of the time in the countryside, let the dog sleep on the cement floor and in the field; or the dog has prepared a luxurious kennel, which looks beautiful, cute, or interesting, but most of it is our wishful thinking, and the dog does not like it at all.
▲ Designed by Reiser + Meben Architects in New York
To design a good dog product, we must really start from the perspective of "user", that is, from the perspective of "people-oriented" to the perspective of "dog-oriented".
▲ Kengo Kuma design
Of course, the living space of dogs is also a microcosm of our living environment.
This shift in thinking and perspective is actually more conducive to our observation of the essence of product design, followed by more accessibility and inclusive design, which can be more convenient for both pets and our own lives. Therefore, letting the dogs live better can also improve our living environment and quality of life. In fact, dogs feel happy in the buildings and environments in which they live, and our joy and satisfaction increase —but the frustrating point is that any progress that is not in the interest of humans themselves is usually driven from the perspective of self-interest.
In fact, why not simply act to make our old friends happier?