Live-in
Room of Tomorrow, A Competition Entry
Our studio envisions an innovative kitchen of the future that is
both high-touch and high-tech, a nurturing locus that embraces a spectrum
of activity, and transforms with the users, their activities, their preferences,
and the site. The highly functioning heart and epicenter of daily activity,
our technologically and ecologically advanced prefabricated structure can
be assembled on almost any site and docked into place to begin to pulse
with life and activity. Imagine an efficient infrastructure rooted at the
core, rotating and communicative of its many functions. At its core are
rainwater collection, a concealable rotating HDTV screen, sound system,
and controls, integrated appliances, and cantilevered display. The heart
of the home is a fluid technologically-advanced nexus of activity. Its flexible
layout embraces varied activities and transforms throughout the phases of
the day and seasons of the year. Form and function are blended to maximize
visual pleasure, high efficiency and personalized activity. Sustainability
is reflected in transparent glazing, rainwater collection and distribution,
photovoltaic solar cells, sliding screens, a flueless hearth, motion-controlled
lighting, a wind harnessing turbine and integrated vegetation. High tech
and high heart – our Live-in Room of Tomorrow is light and modern as well
as warm and earthy.
