The real estate market is having a good time in big cities. Environments where apartments abound that the home automation and intelligent furniture make more livable.
It is in the urban center where each square meter reaches its highest price. And where the use of the surface of the home is more important.
In this sense, furniture and technology play an important role in the optimization of space. Taking advantage of each corner and adapting the rooms according to the needs of each moment.
When engineer Hasier Larrea arrived at MIT in 2011, a question hit his head. If the apartments are getting smaller and less comfortable, how can we change the way we relate to your space?
The solution was easy. Provide the furniture design and technology that allows reconfiguring the home depending on the circumstances.
A global population problem
According to the United Nations, over 54% of the world’s population currently lives in cities. Attaining to represent in 2050 70% of the inhabitants of the planet.
Housing increasingly smaller to live and work where it is better to overcome every small barrier to create living spaces.
A challenge for which Hasier Larrea suggests applying robotics, creating spaces that double and triple the surface of a home.
Reducing square meters does not have to mean losing functionality or feeling of home in an urban apartment.
Adapt and not adapt to space
Larrea did not understand why architecture had been repeating patterns since forever. A place to sleep, a place to cook, etc. So he imagined a space that adapted to the person, rather than a person adapted to space.
With the aim of turning static stays into spaces full of dynamism imagined a new model of architecture based on robotics. And furniture that integrates the technology, facilitating the work of collecting tables and beds with a simple gesture.
The integration of mechanical, electronic and software systems makes a bedroom can be transformed into an office in just a few seconds. Or that a room can be completely collected, multiplying the available space.
It’s nothing new. Robotics is already part of our daily lives. You simply have to know how to take advantage of the possibilities it offers us.
The future in smart furniture
The new challenge of robotic architecture lies in making systems learn from human behavior. It is about going a step further, in the interpretation of emotions and in the reaction to the needs of each moment.
Integrating the ‘Internet of Things’, you can already program the lighting, the thermostat and even the fragrance of the home.
However, living in smaller space forces to redouble efforts. Optimizing space, using smart furniture, as well as making the most of water and energy savings.
They will be fully programmable homes, just like a computer, with which you can interact from a smartphone.
