There's an issue with many of these moving-wall type houses which try to share space, which isn't being addressed - namely the psychology of using the same space for multiple purposes. Logically, it shouldn't make a difference, but practically (or emotionally perhaps), it often actually does make a difference. Interestingly, in many of these videos, the owners will often make a statement about their use of the space that amounts to the fact that they don't take full advantage of all the features (like not using the office even though it's there in this video, or one guy who claimed he never really used the apartment for much other than sleeping despite the fact that it was fully decked out and could be converted into multiple different types of spaces). The issue is the same issue you get when you have your bed in the same room as your desk - there are cues in our environment that often heavily influence our behaviour without our awareness. Trying to work on your bed or in your bedroom is likely to negatively influence both your sleep and your work. This doesn't necessarily make it impossible to use the same space for different purposes in practice, but it does mean that it may be a little bit more complicated than suspending a bed over your living room and then just dropping it down when it's time to go to sleep. Good design will need to explore ways to transform the appearance and feel of the space and possibly introduce artificial thresholds that replicate entering a new space in order to cue the new function that will need to be performed in that same space (eating / cooking / sleeping / showering / resting / working etc.) I'm finding this so incredibly fascinating and would be really interested to see more.
I like how moving the bed out of view, then opening the living room up to a larger area, feels more open and airy. If someone is disabled, as I am, and housebound, the psychological advantage of getting the bed and its mess of covers and pillows out of sight, and having a pleasant, open space, would help move that person into doing other activities besides reading or watching TV, things we associate with being in (or near) the bed all day. Of course, the wonderful windows are a big part of that! For those who spend a lot of time in a one-room apartment, there would be a real psychological advantage to putting the bed away, and this system does it whether you are able to do it yourself, or not!
I see your point, FHD, something i didn't think about, and it's an interesting point of view. Makes me think how important is also the _transition_ to convert a space into a different room with the mood change that shall fits with. Light, shades, and shapes, but also textures. In example, we could figure a system able to learn daily habits and listen to the host to analyze subtle things dropped like mumbles "ok, i'm going to bed soon, enough for today", and while you're having a shower, everything is tidying and deploying. Once you're back and drying, the whole transformation is over and you enter a really different room. In someway, blending with psychology, we could see these concepts like we design video-games ergonomy. Need to talk about this with friends !
Completely agree. How is it that MIT is not producing people that understand interdisciplinary factors? This clawson gives credence to he term "educated idiot." I think that we have all proof positive we need that our environment is so toxic that we can no longer discern compromised endocrinology from a good idea.
FHD فَهِد your point quite make sense. I live in a studio where the sofa is directly across the bed and I barely use any other furniture to create sense of functional zones. I still like the robotics part of this product though, because a lot of mobile partition/flexible furniture still require extra force and movement.
This would make things better for many disabled people. Our strength and balance can be unpredictable or absent right at the wrong time. I've got Parkinson's Disease. The folding of a futon can be too much for me right when I need to lay down flat, and I am six feet tall. Plus I'm not thin of frame.
I love seeing people who are enthusiastic about what they do. I can imagine using this type of robotic technology in my life, it captures what minimalists value.
im just imagining someone trying to have dinner with friends and the thing just keeps moving around shooting lights and taking the table in and out because it gets triggered by all the words amd gestures hehe 😅
i really love the idea of these moving walls. so cool. so intelligent. BUT not one of these hyper designed spaces take into account that I have winter clothes, summer clothes, weekend clothes, office clothes, books, makeup, snow boots, shoes, cats, letterboxes... etc...There are 6 hangers in their wardrobe and it is almost full !! not to mention that I like to cook and that means I have pots, pans, baking dishes as well as actual food. So these spaces are super intelligent but not livable as long term home apartments. but they would be cool as part of a house. In fact, President Jefferson made the prototype for all this with his bedroom/office in his Monticello home. Even my engineer PhD boyfriend was impressed by it. The spanish MIT student that presented the video is so smart and so cute. His parents must be so proud of him.
The point he made is that you can design the furniture to work as you need it to work. If you have a ton of clothing, allow for accomodation of the seasonal storage, or for items you rarely use. Raise the bed, for instance, and put drawers beneath it. No one design works for everyone. This was just an example of how the mechanisms can work. However, the process may also make us rethink how much of the stuff we own is really necessary.
Transformable multi-use spaces is the key to tiny living. I've designed and built my own 240sqf tiny house with large french door fridge, huge shower, king bed, immense kitchen, etc. Too often we see tiny houses that make everything smaller, however, by building adaptable spaces one can use full size, or even super sized everything without the need to compromise.
.. I like this. the idea of a set of modular building blocks you can put together and use to make the small spaces available in a city center more livable, functional -- another way to address it than custom built environments. .. I think of Bruce Willis' apartment in _The Fifth Element_ .. or there is a sequence in the Melissa Scott's novel _Trouble and Her Friends_ where a character walks into her apartment and reaches up into a network of optical sensors to turn on power and activate systems .. to those who remark this is a tool in the agenda to push people in some direction, control them .. living with this is a choice. just as living in a tiny house is a choice. you might have a point if this is the only type of system available.
I think he said something about that, and basically that most people are too lazy to do anything by hand after a few times. I mean would you buy a vehicle that had CRANKS for the windows or do you want power windows now or how about locking and unlocking your car with the old fashioned KEY? Plus with the general population living longer and getting older, the harder it gets to push and pull those "HANDLES" on everything.
I am so sooo excited about this. Ever since I was 5 and watched 5th Element, I wished and wished that I could have an apartment like Bruce Willis' haha - and now if I just save up and contact this company, it can become a reality!!
I think it's in some ways very neat but really it's a high tech solution to a problem that's not going to improve your quality of life. For me, it's about removing complications. A simple, cozy bed area, a kitchen with a reasonable surface area and a table, and an open shower/bathroom. There you have everything you need which can all fit in a tiny space quite comfortably, without the need of an ugly, expensive, complicated machine.
I like how you have to have your enitre house clean 24/7 for your furniture to even work propper. Great concept, you should try and live with it for a year and see how it holds up
I personally think it's brilliant. Our cities are so crowded and rent is so expensive. This is a genuinely clever way to deal with some of those problems.
Never understand why people have to be so negative. It's not like anyone is forcing you to live here. Plus, the human population is growing so we have to be better about how we use our space We can't just keep expanding and destroying nature. Think about it, do people really NEED a formal dining room? Even if you use it every meal, that's only like 6 hours a day you're using it. Why not utilize the space better? The whole point of these companies is to make every inch count instead of having building 2000sqft homes where only 10% of the space is being used at any given time. Yes, it does mean homes become very cookie cutter and decorating is limited but if these designs meant would mean more people could get affordable modern homes then are you going to be selfish and say NO just because so that you have a living room that no one uses?
Only a part of the human population is growing. Every western nation is showing a decline in the native-born population. Africa will have 4 billion people by the end of the century while most other places will have shown a decline.
Although the population in first world countries is decreasing on average, there is an increasing number of people moving to urban areas like Manhattan and paying premium prices for every square footage. For those people, l think this and other ideas suit them (who are mostly professionals with no kids) as they can get the most value out of the space they are paying for
Space is something humans need. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with scaling back and relying on less space, I think that's a good thing. I'm subscribed to this channel, so I'm obviously interested in small houses and that sort of thing. However, when you reach a point where you've given up so much space that you have to rely on transforming furniture (with pointless robotics) to meet your needs, it seems like too little.
Just out of curiosity why do you say that people need space in their home (I assume that's what you mean when you say ''space is something humans need'')? If you need space just go outside, plenty of space. You spend most of your day at work, away from home so why would you need space? Shouldn't it just be enough to have a bed, kitchen, bathroom and a couch in just one space with a divider? This way you can physically go from one place into another without leaving a room.
We all prefer to live with plenty of space. However, that is nowadays a luxury for most, so we have to adapt and leave in smaller spaces.The irony is, that we buy small places for not being able to afford bigger ones, and then all these systems and furniture for tiny apartments are tremendously expensive, leaving us mortals, pimping and adapting Ikea´s products...
Alexa (goes crazy):"Good morning! Is time to wake up" ....bed starts to roll in & pushing me into the floor. hehehe... Love this concept for studio living spaces!!
I guess this is why IKEA is getting into the smart-home space; it definitely makes sense given that people are struggling to stay afloat and are stuck downsizing. It's even more necessary for the most vulnerable members of society, who are both poorer and are more sensitive to their environment. Some German companies are doing amazing work in the kitchen spaces within this emerging 'smart-room' domain.
Why does this give me the vibe of a movie villain trying to fix humanities problems but no one accepts him. So basically stop this man before he becomes evil with his furniture bots.
These designs look great for young people who are single, workable for couples, not so good when kids come along, and then great again for empty-nesters. I could see it becoming normal for new grads to live like this, move to a larger place when they start their family, and then retire to a tiny house in the country.
That couch moving is awesome, so great if you're having an argument and you can just start yelling backwards and make the person go away. Even better if you had an intercom system and could just start making the couch in another room move.
For the heavy main wall this would be great, or for folks who for whatever reason can't move certain elements all of it. I love these ideas and how diverse ideas for using small spaces are. Well done for making it more accessible for more people.
Yes this is a great idea. This will make smaller spaces much more adaptable to needs. But I also hope there will be a power free option, because as super nifty as this is, there is always the possibility of power outages. We all better go solar!
Ideal for bachelor pads only - what if someone wants to shit while everyone's having dinner, or while everyone's having a party in the other "room"? Me - I only need a desk. I work, sleep, eat, play and entertain there; Multi-functioning spaces is a STATE OF MIND.
Good thing this is an iteration version because that thing will be difficult to get into 1 billion consumers hands wanting it. I have so many ideas that could push this goal. Even competitors are not pushing that far in maximising small space but rather the opposite and balanced.
All I see that these people just did was make those motorized movable backroom store racks like the ones in Walmart for the masses! Those racks technically do just that! They move what's on them back & forth! The Walmart I used to work at, the assemblers bay was built into those rolling racks, which was a great space saver! Great job bringing this to the masses! PS: the rolling racks at Walmart was from lay-a-way but at the time I worked there, lay-a-way was canceled due too many people where abusing it by putting things on lay-a-way then canceling their order to just put it back on lay-a-way when the item went on sale or clearance then if it got another bigger sale/clearance they would cancel then put it back on at the lower price! Now, Walmart's lay-a-way is back but there are restrictions on what can go/when lay-a-way is available, plus many(nearly all walmarts) have a restocking fee of at least $20 or 20%(whatever is greater) which for us that does use lay-a-way the way it was to be used can still use it when we need too! Again, great idea for the masses, if/when I need/want to add these, I'm glad that there is someone out there that will make this easier for me to get this setup!
I really like this idea, its elegant. My 1 bed flat is quite spacious but has almost no storage. I think it has a lot of wasted space following traditional set ups. I'd go for the manual movement option though. Save on electricity 😄
Can this be hacked? Through Alexa? Where is the usable shower? One for people with balance trouble or a broken leg? Why not do this with universal design? Then an accident that affects mobility does not require a hotel, or worse, a rehab center when you don’t really need it. Try universal design and reevaluate the size of the apartment. I like this but I am still not willing to part with money for it. Essential question is integration. Segregation by body condition is unacceptable. This approach has tremendous potential. It’s impressive.
Amazing.. LOVE THIS!!! Great for older people or people who can't move something heavy. You make small places look larger and you can do many things in a small area.
i wouldnt mind a bed that fits under the wardrobe... mounting my monitors to the back of the wardrobe is an idea i hadnt thought off. i'm adding that into my plans for a studio apartment. i dont need many things to move around. but these ideas are really helpful to keep stuff neat and as i go over 35 years old
I don't know why I like watching videos like this. They make me feel claustrophobic and like I'm being watched when all you can see out the apartment window is a million other windows looking at you. But, the mechanics are neat and I suppose for people going to say college these layouts could be very useful. Even in conventional homes that are now being used for rentals to college aged kids, you could convert a room into this. Still, I'm glad I've never had to (or choose to) live in that kind of environment.
I am surprised at how many readers mention a growing population as a factor concerning this design.EVERY western nation is experiencing a decline in native-born population.If you truly want less growth in cities and urban environment in every western country you need to have an immigration moratorium. Even China is experiencing a decline in population. The biggest drivers of population are now latin America and Africa. The best way to curb world population is not to encourage less babies in the west, they are already doing that, you need to introduce birth control in Latin America and Africa because at the rate it is going now, Africa will have 4 billion people by the end of the century while most western populations will have declined dramatically without immigration.
All of that is true but the real problem that this is meant to solve is that more and more people are moving to the cities. And either spending 2/3 hours of their day commuting or living close to work in tiny little shoe box apartments. This is a great solution for people who choose not to comute
I agree with you. I think it is a very innovative solution and is actually quite briliant. I was primarily responding to those who were disparaging the design and complaining about how we need to reduce our popualtion. So few people are aware that all western countries have birth rates below displacement levels and are in severe popualtion decline and any growth is due to immigration. If we are to complain about popuation growth some attention needs to be focused on where it is happening, which is Africa and latin America. We would have more debate about the topic but open border globalists have shut down the discussion. in 2006, billionaire David Gelbaum gave the Sierra Club a 100 million dollar donation on the one condition that they wold bever get another penny if they ever talked about the harmful effcts of immigration on the environment ever again. the Media NEVER brings the subject up.
This is a viable option for me. At 60, I’m ready to live my life without all the responsibility of my house. Ready to shuck all the crap I own. The bed space will have to be much deeper for my mattress. Love the robotics. it’s the way to go for the elderly, too.
I would like to see this adapted to an efficiency apartment in Assisted Living apartments. Of course Hospital beds are higher. So it would be take more height to hide the bed, but often storage space is limited there so this might be very useful.
It will be good to be able to push the items both manually and electronically so that to reduce electrical usage even when it's switched off or whenever there's electricity getting cut off we are still able to operate it manually
Awesome. I have been looking at automated mobile storage and transforming tiny apartments and how to put the two together, but never did I think of the garage door opener on the wall like this. Great innovation!
Needless to say, it's an awesome idea 👍 plus a solution for the lack of places to live in big cities. Moreover, I could see this taking off in NYC, Hawaii, any place where space is limited for housing. Thank you for sharing this video... wishing you lots of success... Abrazos y hasta luego tio.
We can all trust MIT to make the world a better place.
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It is very nice. I love it. One of the best innovations I have seen in this channel or elsewhere. BUT.. a space that big can already have a living space, sleeping space and office without it needing to 'transform'. Separating the bedroom from the living space is not really required. Think of hotel rooms - they have beds, sofas, desks - in a narrower space than hat - and it works fine.
I have yet to see an ADA compliant restroom. The ease of moving, opening, using furniture is welcome. I’ve got arthritis. There is no cure for arthritis (joint replace is not often the answer). So when are these small living spaces going to have a toilet that is usable and safe?
These automatic & robotic moving furniture design ideas will be very useful for expensive big cities, like Landon and HongKong. In the situation when people have limited space and limited money
This must feel orgasmic to interior designers or architecture students, probably the reason why these concepts of transformable little spaces with moving walls (eletronic or not) keep coming back. Hoewever, for normal everyday people, I think that in the long run these kind of spaces only provide irritation.
I would add few buttons with a position memory function, so people could set how e.g. his bedroom would look like and make the system to remember this position. Next time user hits the button the system would repeat the preset position by itself Other thing they should probably think about is redusing the noise of the motors - it's ok to hear it few times in the vid, but to listen to it every day...
Seems like a good solution for people at a certain stage in life who spend their free time doing things that don't require much space (watching tv or on the computer) or who don't spend much time at home. But you are always forced to think about space - how to deal with the lack of it. For me, it would not be a desirable home and would signal that maybe we need to focus on dealing with overpopulation.
With spaces like this (and I love the concepts) I wonder what happens when you add a pet, or if you have art. I live in a small space, though I have lived in smaller places, and I have pets, tippy art pieces, plants, books (and lots of them). I imagine that rearranging a place with automatic moving parts could be a bit challenged by having some stuff and critters. I don't assume it would be impossible, it's just when I see design students working on stuff like this I think, "What happens when you add a cat?" which is just a euphemism for chaos. What happens when you add an element you cannot control?
It would be really nice if you can override the system and push, pull or lift things if for example there's a power problem in the building or in the area you are living or if you just want to save some power.
There's an issue with many of these moving-wall type houses which try to share space, which isn't being addressed - namely the psychology of using the same space for multiple purposes. Logically, it shouldn't make a difference, but practically (or emotionally perhaps), it often actually does make a difference. Interestingly, in many of these videos, the owners will often make a statement about their use of the space that amounts to the fact that they don't take full advantage of all the features (like not using the office even though it's there in this video, or one guy who claimed he never really used the apartment for much other than sleeping despite the fact that it was fully decked out and could be converted into multiple different types of spaces).
The issue is the same issue you get when you have your bed in the same room as your desk - there are cues in our environment that often heavily influence our behaviour without our awareness. Trying to work on your bed or in your bedroom is likely to negatively influence both your sleep and your work. This doesn't necessarily make it impossible to use the same space for different purposes in practice, but it does mean that it may be a little bit more complicated than suspending a bed over your living room and then just dropping it down when it's time to go to sleep. Good design will need to explore ways to transform the appearance and feel of the space and possibly introduce artificial thresholds that replicate entering a new space in order to cue the new function that will need to be performed in that same space (eating / cooking / sleeping / showering / resting / working etc.)
I'm finding this so incredibly fascinating and would be really interested to see more.
I like how moving the bed out of view, then opening the living room up to a larger area, feels more open and airy. If someone is disabled, as I am, and housebound, the psychological advantage of getting the bed and its mess of covers and pillows out of sight, and having a pleasant, open space, would help move that person into doing other activities besides reading or watching TV, things we associate with being in (or near) the bed all day. Of course, the wonderful windows are a big part of that! For those who spend a lot of time in a one-room apartment, there would be a real psychological advantage to putting the bed away, and this system does it whether you are able to do it yourself, or not!
I see your point, FHD, something i didn't think about, and it's an interesting point of view. Makes me think how important is also the _transition_ to convert a space into a different room with the mood change that shall fits with. Light, shades, and shapes, but also textures. In example, we could figure a system able to learn daily habits and listen to the host to analyze subtle things dropped like mumbles "ok, i'm going to bed soon, enough for today", and while you're having a shower, everything is tidying and deploying. Once you're back and drying, the whole transformation is over and you enter a really different room. In someway, blending with psychology, we could see these concepts like we design video-games ergonomy. Need to talk about this with friends !
( @ FHD, to resume, i see all of this as a *level design* exercice which can be kinda fun ! ^^ )
Completely agree. How is it that MIT is not producing people that understand interdisciplinary factors? This clawson gives credence to he term "educated idiot."
I think that we have all proof positive we need that our environment is so toxic that we can no longer discern compromised endocrinology from a good idea.
FHD فَهِد your point quite make sense. I live in a studio where the sofa is directly across the bed and I barely use any other furniture to create sense of functional zones. I still like the robotics part of this product though, because a lot of mobile partition/flexible furniture still require extra force and movement.
This would make things better for many disabled people. Our strength and balance can be unpredictable or absent right at the wrong time. I've got Parkinson's Disease. The folding of a futon can be too much for me right when I need to lay down flat, and I am six feet tall. Plus I'm not thin of frame.
riftalope or older people whose strength has dismissed...I’m in my 50’s
my microwave is not a robot he is part of the family his name is James
my vacuum cleaner is an elephant named Memories
my lube is not just lube she apart of my family and makes me very happy her name lucia
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Bryan Arevalo hahha
Chef Mike
I love seeing people who are enthusiastic about what they do. I can imagine using this type of robotic technology in my life, it captures what minimalists value.
This is one of the most interesting channels on CZcams.
im just imagining someone trying to have dinner with friends and the thing just keeps moving around shooting lights and taking the table in and out because it gets triggered by all the words amd gestures hehe 😅
Imagine having to go to the bathroom while entertaining guests. That door is too translucent and that gap... The stuff of nightmares!!
Compacting furniture = bed, sofa, desk & etc.
Smarthphone = camera, map, book, computer, telephone & etc
Love his enthusiasm and passion. Also love the fact that they're creating a platform for others to create.
What if there is a power cut?
My first question too...
then youll have to sleep on the couch till the power is back
You probably can still push them manually, they just might be a bit heavy.
Not 'if' but when, an EMP even???
You know you can get batteries right?
ladies and gents... THAT is called passion!
I wouldnt mind working for them provided they gave me food and a place to stay. Honestly.
i really love the idea of these moving walls. so cool. so intelligent. BUT not one of these hyper designed spaces take into account that I have winter clothes, summer clothes, weekend clothes, office clothes, books, makeup, snow boots, shoes, cats, letterboxes... etc...There are 6 hangers in their wardrobe and it is almost full !! not to mention that I like to cook and that means I have pots, pans, baking dishes as well as actual food. So these spaces are super intelligent but not livable as long term home apartments. but they would be cool as part of a house. In fact, President Jefferson made the prototype for all this with his bedroom/office in his Monticello home. Even my engineer PhD boyfriend was impressed by it.
The spanish MIT student that presented the video is so smart and so cute. His parents must be so proud of him.
The point he made is that you can design the furniture to work as you need it to work. If you have a ton of clothing, allow for accomodation of the seasonal storage, or for items you rarely use. Raise the bed, for instance, and put drawers beneath it. No one design works for everyone. This was just an example of how the mechanisms can work. However, the process may also make us rethink how much of the stuff we own is really necessary.
I LOVE that one of their key design aspects seems to be ‘can I make my apartment into a disco’.
Kirsten I'm strangely in love with your videos I can't stop watching them lol
Transformable multi-use spaces is the key to tiny living. I've designed and built my own 240sqf tiny house with large french door fridge, huge shower, king bed, immense kitchen, etc.
Too often we see tiny houses that make everything smaller, however, by building adaptable spaces one can use full size, or even super sized everything without the need to compromise.
lol imagine someone's taking a dump and all of a sudden some one move the walls around it hahaha.
Love it! And if MIT made it...it's the best.
I'm 74 and already live in smaller space. Your energy hits me! The huge house is over. This i s amazing.
.. I like this. the idea of a set of modular building blocks you can put together and use to make the small spaces available in a city center more livable, functional -- another way to address it than custom built environments.
.. I think of Bruce Willis' apartment in _The Fifth Element_ .. or there is a sequence in the Melissa Scott's novel _Trouble and Her Friends_ where a character walks into her apartment and reaches up into a network of optical sensors to turn on power and activate systems
.. to those who remark this is a tool in the agenda to push people in some direction, control them .. living with this is a choice. just as living in a tiny house is a choice. you might have a point if this is the only type of system available.
or you could just put handles on everything.
and ruin the aesthetics of a clean surface!? *GASP!!!*
you didnt get the point
But then how do I make it super expensive and completely unsustainable tho?
I think he said something about that, and basically that most people are too lazy to do anything by hand after a few times. I mean would you buy a vehicle that had CRANKS for the windows or do you want power windows now or how about locking and unlocking your car with the old fashioned KEY? Plus with the general population living longer and getting older, the harder it gets to push and pull those "HANDLES" on everything.
I like cranky windows. It gets hot here, and sometimes, you have to wait in a car you don't have the key to =/.
I am so sooo excited about this. Ever since I was 5 and watched 5th Element, I wished and wished that I could have an apartment like Bruce Willis' haha - and now if I just save up and contact this company, it can become a reality!!
I think it's in some ways very neat but really it's a high tech solution to a problem that's not going to improve your quality of life. For me, it's about removing complications. A simple, cozy bed area, a kitchen with a reasonable surface area and a table, and an open shower/bathroom. There you have everything you need which can all fit in a tiny space quite comfortably, without the need of an ugly, expensive, complicated machine.
I like how you have to have your enitre house clean 24/7 for your furniture to even work propper.
Great concept, you should try and live with it for a year and see how it holds up
Try it for 2 months. 2 weeks with kids or a partner.
"Honey, open the drawer. I want to sleep."
This guy is a great salesman 😂
Technology man, it’s beautiful :-)
Brilliant I need this in my flat great!!
I'm a simple man, I sleep in the living room and need no bedroom.
This is your most underrated video in your channel. Just great!
This is gold for real estate developers and efficient space usage... I mean it could bring standard and luxury to new levels.
I personally think it's brilliant. Our cities are so crowded and rent is so expensive. This is a genuinely clever way to deal with some of those problems.
Its fun and games until the bed closing on its own when you sleep.
Never understand why people have to be so negative. It's not like anyone is forcing you to live here. Plus, the human population is growing so we have to be better about how we use our space We can't just keep expanding and destroying nature.
Think about it, do people really NEED a formal dining room? Even if you use it every meal, that's only like 6 hours a day you're using it. Why not utilize the space better? The whole point of these companies is to make every inch count instead of having building 2000sqft homes where only 10% of the space is being used at any given time. Yes, it does mean homes become very cookie cutter and decorating is limited but if these designs meant would mean more people could get affordable modern homes then are you going to be selfish and say NO just because so that you have a living room that no one uses?
Only a part of the human population is growing. Every western nation is showing a decline in the native-born population. Africa will have 4 billion people by the end of the century while most other places will have shown a decline.
Although the population in first world countries is decreasing on average, there is an increasing number of people moving to urban areas like Manhattan and paying premium prices for every square footage. For those people, l think this and other ideas suit them (who are mostly professionals with no kids) as they can get the most value out of the space they are paying for
There's nothing wrong with people scaling back, and doing more with less... but the whole transforming furniture thing feels awfully dystopian to me.
Space is something humans need. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with scaling back and relying on less space, I think that's a good thing. I'm subscribed to this channel, so I'm obviously interested in small houses and that sort of thing. However, when you reach a point where you've given up so much space that you have to rely on transforming furniture (with pointless robotics) to meet your needs, it seems like too little.
Just out of curiosity why do you say that people need space in their home (I assume that's what you mean when you say ''space is something humans need'')? If you need space just go outside, plenty of space. You spend most of your day at work, away from home so why would you need space? Shouldn't it just be enough to have a bed, kitchen, bathroom and a couch in just one space with a divider? This way you can physically go from one place into another without leaving a room.
If it's connected to the internet, it can be hacked.
Not true, you obviously don't have much knowledge.
+Owen Major Ad Hominem much?
Why would you connect your furniture to the internet you absolute fucking walnut
No, your statement is not true, therefor you are stupid. Not that you are stupid therefor you are not true.
+lainey marie Had you watched the video, he explained that.
This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet in a seriously long time.
We all prefer to live with plenty of space. However, that is nowadays a luxury for most, so we have to adapt and leave in smaller spaces.The irony is, that we buy small places for not being able to afford bigger ones, and then all these systems and furniture for tiny apartments are tremendously expensive, leaving us mortals, pimping and adapting Ikea´s products...
Alexa (goes crazy):"Good morning! Is time to wake up" ....bed starts to roll in & pushing me into the floor. hehehe... Love this concept for studio living spaces!!
He is so passionate about this. It’s great to watch. Would be great to see what they’ve come up with in the 3 years since this was uploaded.
I guess this is why IKEA is getting into the smart-home space; it definitely makes sense given that people are struggling to stay afloat and are stuck downsizing. It's even more necessary for the most vulnerable members of society, who are both poorer and are more sensitive to their environment. Some German companies are doing amazing work in the kitchen spaces within this emerging 'smart-room' domain.
Why does this give me the vibe of a movie villain trying to fix humanities problems but no one accepts him. So basically stop this man before he becomes evil with his furniture bots.
so if there is power outage in the middle of day, i won't have a bed. to sleep.
@Λ R V I D . R Σ H Π B Σ R G or battery backup and solar panels
This shifted my paradigm. Thank you.
and WHY are all beds so LOW these days ????
I put my sofa, dresser, and bed on risers..
I know, really bad for your knees when getting up in the morning, too much pressure on them. Especially when you get older!!!!!
'cause the market is DOWN 😅
These designs look great for young people who are single, workable for couples, not so good when kids come along, and then great again for empty-nesters.
I could see it becoming normal for new grads to live like this, move to a larger place when they start their family, and then retire to a tiny house in the country.
You need to check back every year with Hasier. He is brilliant.
until you yawn from waking up and the bed thinks you want to close the bed and starts to crush you! lol
This totally blew my mind! So awesome. Imagine the iot possibilities..
That couch moving is awesome, so great if you're having an argument and you can just start yelling backwards and make the person go away. Even better if you had an intercom system and could just start making the couch in another room move.
This is fabulous! Definitely the future.
I would just love having this kind of furniture in my appartment!
I wonder if they are putting some of their creativity towards RV Full Time spaces. That would be awesome.
For the heavy main wall this would be great, or for folks who for whatever reason can't move certain elements all of it. I love these ideas and how diverse ideas for using small spaces are. Well done for making it more accessible for more people.
Yes this is a great idea. This will make smaller spaces much more adaptable to needs. But I also hope there will be a power free option, because as super nifty as this is, there is always the possibility of power outages. We all better go solar!
Ideal for bachelor pads only - what if someone wants to shit while everyone's having dinner, or while everyone's having a party in the other "room"?
Me - I only need a desk.
I work, sleep, eat, play and entertain there; Multi-functioning spaces is a STATE OF MIND.
Good thing this is an iteration version because that thing will be difficult to get into 1 billion consumers hands wanting it. I have so many ideas that could push this goal. Even competitors are not pushing that far in maximising small space but rather the opposite and balanced.
When the power is out and you wanna sleep but its still transformed into your kitchen but your not ffking hungry
It does save space and I like how it's so easy to be moved
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
Wow! This design is fantastic.
All I see that these people just did was make those motorized movable backroom store racks like the ones in Walmart for the masses! Those racks technically do just that! They move what's on them back & forth! The Walmart I used to work at, the assemblers bay was built into those rolling racks, which was a great space saver! Great job bringing this to the masses! PS: the rolling racks at Walmart was from lay-a-way but at the time I worked there, lay-a-way was canceled due too many people where abusing it by putting things on lay-a-way then canceling their order to just put it back on lay-a-way when the item went on sale or clearance then if it got another bigger sale/clearance they would cancel then put it back on at the lower price! Now, Walmart's lay-a-way is back but there are restrictions on what can go/when lay-a-way is available, plus many(nearly all walmarts) have a restocking fee of at least $20 or 20%(whatever is greater) which for us that does use lay-a-way the way it was to be used can still use it when we need too!
Again, great idea for the masses, if/when I need/want to add these, I'm glad that there is someone out there that will make this easier for me to get this setup!
I really like this idea, its elegant. My 1 bed flat is quite spacious but has almost no storage. I think it has a lot of wasted space following traditional set ups. I'd go for the manual movement option though. Save on electricity 😄
When the guy went into bed at 1:55 I pictured the mechanism retracting the bed by itself, making a human burrito in the process xD
one thing is bothering me... when they move the wall back and forth, what happens to the wires that plug in the TV etc ?
that is bloody amazing stuff..!!
perfect design you have the best channel with cool ideas. thanks
Just like library compact shelving.
Can this be hacked? Through Alexa? Where is the usable shower? One for people with balance trouble or a broken leg? Why not do this with universal design? Then an accident that affects mobility does not require a hotel, or worse, a rehab center when you don’t really need it. Try universal design and reevaluate the size of the apartment. I like this but I am still not willing to part with money for it. Essential question is integration. Segregation by body condition is unacceptable.
This approach has tremendous potential. It’s impressive.
Amazing.. LOVE THIS!!! Great for older people or people who can't move something heavy. You make small places look larger and you can do many things in a small area.
i wouldnt mind a bed that fits under the wardrobe... mounting my monitors to the back of the wardrobe is an idea i hadnt thought off.
i'm adding that into my plans for a studio apartment. i dont need many things to move around. but these ideas are really helpful to keep stuff neat and as i go over 35 years old
I like how the future looks like by seeing this video
I don't know why I like watching videos like this. They make me feel claustrophobic and like I'm being watched when all you can see out the apartment window is a million other windows looking at you. But, the mechanics are neat and I suppose for people going to say college these layouts could be very useful. Even in conventional homes that are now being used for rentals to college aged kids, you could convert a room into this. Still, I'm glad I've never had to (or choose to) live in that kind of environment.
Wow, this is awesome shit. But putting handles instead of using electricity would be better. Just a thought.
wheels.
I am surprised at how many readers mention a growing population as a factor concerning this design.EVERY western nation is experiencing a decline in native-born population.If you truly want less growth in cities and urban environment in every western country you need to have an immigration moratorium. Even China is experiencing a decline in population. The biggest drivers of population are now latin America and Africa. The best way to curb world population is not to encourage less babies in the west, they are already doing that, you need to introduce birth control in Latin America and Africa because at the rate it is going now, Africa will have 4 billion people by the end of the century while most western populations will have declined dramatically without immigration.
All of that is true but the real problem that this is meant to solve is that more and more people are moving to the cities. And either spending 2/3 hours of their day commuting or living close to work in tiny little shoe box apartments. This is a great solution for people who choose not to comute
I agree with you. I think it is a very innovative solution and is actually quite briliant. I was primarily responding to those who were disparaging the design and complaining about how we need to reduce our popualtion. So few people are aware that all western countries have birth rates below displacement levels and are in severe popualtion decline and any growth is due to immigration. If we are to complain about popuation growth some attention needs to be focused on where it is happening, which is Africa and latin America. We would have more debate about the topic but open border globalists have shut down the discussion. in 2006, billionaire David Gelbaum gave the Sierra Club a 100 million dollar donation on the one condition that they wold bever get another penny if they ever talked about the harmful effcts of immigration on the environment ever again. the Media NEVER brings the subject up.
i like his energy. a natural sales man.
absolutely inovative. regardless other synical negative remarks. this will be great for the future small apartments & high growing living cost
This is a viable option for me. At 60, I’m ready to live my life without all the responsibility of my house. Ready to shuck all the crap I own. The bed space will have to be much deeper for my mattress. Love the robotics. it’s the way to go for the elderly, too.
Amazing use of space, great insights, really quality video
If you had a standalone dwelling, you could power the robotics by solar.
I would like to see this adapted to an efficiency apartment in Assisted Living apartments. Of course Hospital beds are higher. So it would be take more height to hide the bed, but often storage space is limited there so this might be very useful.
Reminds me of Corbin Dallas' apartment in The Fifth Element. Autowash.
This is by far my favorite video of your chanel! It translates many of my beliefs in the future of furniture design.
It will be good to be able to push the items both manually and electronically so that to reduce electrical usage even when it's switched off or whenever there's electricity getting cut off we are still able to operate it manually
I think he said they can customize this & l agree that should be an option
2:49 You can even do the limbo at this apartment!! Okay, i'm sold.
Anything that can make me feel like a Jedi is a win in my book.
Awesome. I have been looking at automated mobile storage and transforming tiny apartments and how to put the two together, but never did I think of the garage door opener on the wall like this. Great innovation!
Needless to say, it's an awesome idea 👍 plus a solution for the lack of places to live in big cities. Moreover, I could see this taking off in NYC, Hawaii, any place where space is limited for housing. Thank you for sharing this video... wishing you lots of success... Abrazos y hasta luego tio.
We can all trust MIT to make the world a better place.
It is very nice. I love it. One of the best innovations I have seen in this channel or elsewhere. BUT..
a space that big can already have a living space, sleeping space and office without it needing to 'transform'. Separating the bedroom from the living space is not really required. Think of hotel rooms - they have beds, sofas, desks - in a narrower space than hat - and it works fine.
I live in a 425 square feet space and this would be great in my space. Wow really cool
The bed: **Superpowers activated**
The bed: Humans are tasty
I have yet to see an ADA compliant restroom. The ease of moving, opening, using furniture is welcome. I’ve got arthritis. There is no cure for arthritis (joint replace is not often the answer). So when are these small living spaces going to have a toilet that is usable and safe?
Power outage? Guess I'm not sleeping tonight Bc my bed is not coming out😂
Nice concept but just strip it off all the fancy robotic features and use some sturdy material to ensure durability. It might as well sell.
These automatic & robotic moving furniture design ideas will be very useful for expensive big cities, like Landon and HongKong. In the situation when people have limited space and limited money
This must feel orgasmic to interior designers or architecture students, probably the reason why these concepts of transformable little spaces with moving walls (eletronic or not) keep coming back. Hoewever, for normal everyday people, I think that in the long run these kind of spaces only provide irritation.
I would add few buttons with a position memory function, so people could set how e.g. his bedroom would look like and make the system to remember this position. Next time user hits the button the system would repeat the preset position by itself
Other thing they should probably think about is redusing the noise of the motors - it's ok to hear it few times in the vid, but to listen to it every day...
The other approach would be to turn your apartment into a gym where you could get a workout by shifting things around.
Add "Smart Home" systems like Oomi, and the Eight smart bed, etc. and this would be pretty awesome.
I've been looking for something like this for a few years, at least the simplified mechanics or in this case robotics. Very versatile.
Seems like a good solution for people at a certain stage in life who spend their free time doing things that don't require much space (watching tv or on the computer) or who don't spend much time at home. But you are always forced to think about space - how to deal with the lack of it. For me, it would not be a desirable home and would signal that maybe we need to focus on dealing with overpopulation.
With spaces like this (and I love the concepts) I wonder what happens when you add a pet, or if you have art. I live in a small space, though I have lived in smaller places, and I have pets, tippy art pieces, plants, books (and lots of them). I imagine that rearranging a place with automatic moving parts could be a bit challenged by having some stuff and critters. I don't assume it would be impossible, it's just when I see design students working on stuff like this I think, "What happens when you add a cat?" which is just a euphemism for chaos. What happens when you add an element you cannot control?
Have you ever walked towards your pet and notice they can move their bodies out of the way?
It would be really nice if you can override the system and push, pull or lift things if for example there's a power problem in the building or in the area you are living or if you just want to save some power.
What if the power goes out? How do you move your components w/o power?