“James R. Powers’ vision of a luxury ocean-side home is walled with glass and protected from the sun by an imposing concrete canopy. It features an underwater observation deck and a combination dining balcony/helipad. If built in the near future, all that glass would probably be coated with thin-film solar skin to energize the whole complex.

Celebrated designer Powers drew the house as a backdrop to his ideas about the vehicles we’d drive to get there (most of the ‘airphibious’ variety – designed for land and air). Powers worked at Ford’s Advanced Styling Studio and was encouraged to imagine future vehicles unhindered by the conventions of the day. Rather than dream up fancy cars in isolation, the studio’s designers made sketches or clay models that imagined the future roads where they’d be driven – and the holiday homes where they would be parked (or landed).”