‘Transformer’ rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes

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The Conversation, Christian Tietz, UNSW, 28 Sept 2019

In high-density cities, the static apartment layouts with one function per room will become a luxury that cannot be maintained. The traditional notion of a dedicated living room, bedroom, bathroom or kitchen will no longer be economically or environmentally sustainable. Building stock will need to work harder.

The need to use building space more efficiently means adaptive and responsive domestic micro-environments will replace the old concept of static rooms within a private apartment.

See here and here for Yves Béhar and MIT Media Lab’s new design for a robotic furniture system for small apartments, which reconfigures itself to accommodate different functions.