**1. Introduction**

"Whatever a man can imagine, another man can make it come true" Jules Verne [1]

Two centuries ago, French writer Jules Verne, using his analytical and synthetic thinking, managed to describe the incipient technological advances of his time, projecting them a century ahead through his futuristic stories. When there were hardly any prototypes of submarines, helicopters or space rockets, Verne narrated his stories of journeys into outer space or to the bottom of the sea, prospective scenarios

that by the end of the nineteenth century were becoming reality. One of his famous phrases was: whatever a man can imagine, another man can make it come true. This background allows us to assert that if we want to project our future, we must know our past and analyse our present. For as Prof. Sohail Inayatullah defines it in his proposal of the Triangle of Futures, there are different driving or inhibiting forces of change that emerges from each of the dimensions of time: the weight of the past, the push of the present and the pull of the imagined future. In this approach, alternative futures emerge in a whirlpool that forms between its three vertices. These vectors push and pull in different directions, each with its own set of driving and inhibiting forces. It is the balance between the force vectors at each corner that will define the different plausible futures [2].

In view of this, if we were to place the time horizon up to 2100, the following research questions arise: what will the houses of the future be like? can we glimpse the future of architecture? would it be plausible to predict future events? can we control the variables implicit in the design and construction of houses in the years to come? These are questions that are addressed in this academic study from a scientific point of view. However, the mere fact of talking about architecture entails a complete and complex set of knowledge, which is why in this academic analysis the study focuses only on the morphological production of architectural form, using as a case study the single-family dwelling in prospective scenarios.
