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Driverless Living Space: Future Car Envisioned as Mobile Room

14 Jan

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driverless car in city

Blending elements of rigorous automotive and interior design, this concept car may look like a streamlined vehicle but is more akin to a communal living room on wheels on the inside.

driverless car conversing commuitng

driverless car dash board

driverless car test model

Unveiled by Mercedes-Benz at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, features include swiveling seats for conversing and viewing, individual touchscreen displays and interactive gesture-based interfaces for driving and recreating alike.

driverless car sitting relaxing

driverless car seating interface

driverless car exterior view

The exterior presents as a classy and aerodynamic sports car with carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, aluminium and steel. Within, walnut, leather and glass make for a a likewise-luxurious but human-oriented set of materials and finishes.

driverless car interior view

driverless car doors open

Of the design and its direction, Dieter Zetsche notes that “Anyone who focuses solely on the technology has not yet grasped how autonomous driving will change our society. The car is growing beyond its role as a mere means of transport and will ultimately become a mobile living space.”

driverless car sleek look

futuristic driveress car design

The open question remains: how much will cars of the future even look like cars on the outside? As platooning and other hive-like concepts are further explored, we may find vehicles look far different down the line than we might imagine.

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Fold-Out Life: 13 Space-Saving Expanding Room Elements

06 Nov

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

Fold Out My Space Play Area

Murphy beds and small table surfaces aren’t the only interior elements that can pop out of walls or freestanding cabinets to offer extra function when it’s needed. Entire kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, offices, play areas and even balconies can be unfolded or pulled from nearly-flat surfaces to make small spaces more versatile, shifting their purpose altogether within minutes. See 12 more ultra-compact fold-out room systems.

Furniture Pops Out of Flat-Pack Mat

Fold Out Flat Pack Mat 2

Entitled ‘Land Peel,’ this piece by Shin Yamashita is a flat floor mat with elements that pop up to create a variety of seating and working/eating surfaces.

My Space Fold-Out Play Area for Kids

Small living spaces rarely have enough room for an entire children’s play area, but fold-away solutions create one when it’s needed. My Space by Liya Mairson packs almost entirely flat when not in use, but pops up into a fun little private play space within minutes. Since it’s made of cardboard, it’s light enough for kids to set up themselves.

Pull-Out Dining Room

Bench seating, a dining table, and even an overhead light pull out of this compact pull-out dining room design, which also contains storage space.

Expanding Fold-Out Balcony

Fold Out Expanding Balcony 2

Get access to the outdoors from an upper-level apartment or condo in under a minute with this cool pop-out balcony by Hofman Dujardin Architects. It looks like a window when closed, but opens up to offer a small but valuable temporary outdoor space.

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Reading Room (Dividers): 13 Creative Bookshelf Designs

20 Mar

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

Bookshelf Room Dividers Main

Books make everything better, especially when you’re looking to divide a large loft or studio apartment into smaller, more functional spaces. Bookshelf room dividers go far beyond the standard IKEA Expedit setup, as these 13 examples illustrate, with some offering built-in reading nooks or modular systems that can be expanded as your personal library grows.

Bookshelf Tower and Divider by Marica Vizzuso

Bookshelf Room Divider Vizzuso 2

This folding metal screen has slots for books of various sizes, and it can either close up into a columnar tower or be opened for use as a room divider. B-OK by Marica Vizzuso is not only multi-functional, it also turns books into art. Says the designer, “Why do you place books in a conventional way when you can have both an amusing and aesthetically interesting alternative?”

Charmingly Off-Kilter

Bookshelf Room Dividers Off Kilter

Open cubes and rectangles are packed together in a random and off-kilter fashion, resulting in a visually dynamic room divider with a built-in desk.

Hidden Chair and Footstool

Bookshelf Room Divider Viable Hidden Chair

The ‘Shelflife’ series by Charles Trevelyan for Viable London is a space-saving bookcase and room divider with a chair and footstool hidden within the structure of the shelves.

Modern Leaning Bookcase and Room Divider

Bookshelf Room Dividers Modern Leaning

Forget about bookends – you don’t need them with this modular bookcase and room divider system by Nitzan Cohen. The leaning shelves ensure that books stay put, and modules can be added as your collection grows.

Alphabet Room Divider Bookshelf

Bookshelf Room Divider Alphabet

So maybe it’s a little difficult to fit books into rounded letters like C and O, but but this room divider and storage system by modern Finnish designer Lincoln Kayiwa is still a fun way to organize small objects. It’s made of medium-density fiberboard and available in a range of colors.

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Room with a View: How to Create this Window with Blinds Portrait Anywhere

13 Feb

In this post Gina Milicia – author of our brand new Posing eBook – walks us through the taking of one of her portraits of Christy Vandenberg.

Final

I’m constantly on the look out for new and interesting ways to pose my models. This shoot only took me 20 minutes from start to finish and is really basic to set up and photograph.

The following tutorial is a step by step of how I pose and light my window portrait.

This set up is great way to add mood to a portrait. The reflections caused by the glass that partly obscure my model add a sense of mystery and romance to the shot.

This image was taken in my studio using daylight and can be recreated almost anywhere.

The example I’ve given is of a full-face shot but this also works with ¾ shots and profile shots and with or without venetian blinds.

Gear Checklist

Canon 5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens*

I’ve used a focal length of 200mm but a focal length of anywhere between 70-200mm will work. If you have a cropped frame sensor a 50mm will also give a similar result.

Manfrotto 475B Pro

I shoot most of my headshots using a tripod because having my camera fixed gives me the freedom to focus on expression and pose rather than having to worry about whether my vertical and horizontal angles are straight.

The other reason I love shooting on tripod is it allows me to shoot portraits at very slow shutter speeds of 1/15th or 1/8th of a second, which I could never get using hand held.

1 x cheap Venetian blind + boom c stand or clothes rack to hold up venetians
1 x sheet of clear Perspex* approx. 3ft x 3ft ( held by assistant)

* Perspex is lighter and cheaper than glass and easier to transport.

Camera Settings

ISO 400
200mm
f/2.8 at 1/80th second
Daylight

I’ve used a long focal length of 200mm and short depth of field of f/2.8 because I wanted my models eyes to be in focus and the background to be out of focus.

The lighting in this shot is very simple daylight coming in from a large window directly behind me.

The model is also backlit by two large windows directly behind her.

Lighting diagram

Attach venetian blinds to your stand

Venetians 50

I positioned my model behind the venetians and then took a test shot to make sure my exposure was correct.

Venetian no glass 7

The Perspex is then held in front of the Venetian and tilted forward slightly to minimize reflections.

Flare 50

The style and type of reflections will vary depending on the location you shoot in.
I experimented by having the Perspex tilted at various angles. The example above has a slightly more mysterious vibe because the face is obscured by reflections.

Finally I introduced texture to the image by spraying water on the Perspex.

Final

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Sleep with the Fishes: Floating Underwater Hotel Room

26 Nov

[ By Steph in Global & Travel & Places. ]

Underwater Hotel Room Manta Resort 1

Watch eerily illuminated sea creatures swim past your windows at night as you fall asleep on your own ‘private floating island,’ an underwater hotel room at the Manta Resort. This special getaway is a two-story floating wooden structure with a submerged bedroom, a surface-level deck that lets you dive into the sea, and a rooftop lounge area.

Underwater Hotel Room Manta Resort 2

Underwater Hotel Room Manta Resort 5

Located off the eastern coast of Africa near Pemba Island, the artificial floating island has virtually everything you’d want from a resort – as long as you’re okay with near-total seclusion. That means no other guests, but also no waiters or other attendees. You might be okay with that, given the scenery – but no worries, you can always take a boat back to the main resort to enjoy the restaurant and spa.

Underwater Hotel Room Manta Resort 4

Designed by Swedish firm Genberg Underwater Hotels, the three-story structure is envisioned as a private getaway for a couple. It’s anchored to the sea floor from its four corners so it won’t float away, bobbing gently on the sea. Guests can enjoy views of all sorts of marine life, and coral reefs. After dark they’re still visible thanks to underwater spotlights beneath each window.

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Weightless Space: Ghostly Floating Room Hovers in Midair

31 Oct

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

floating architectural installation project

A fantastic feat of architectural trickery, this anti-gravity ant-room installation appears to hover in thin air and open up into nothingness. It sports a single point of contact with the ground below – a ladder propped against it, ostensibly placed to access the amazing space.

floating ghost building

floating room broken interior

The piece was designed by Leandro Erlich (some images by Martin Argyroglo) of Argentina for an annual art festival in France, but the artist is known elsewhere as well for his vertigo-inducing work.

floating building art installation

floating building in context

The ladder is the secret behind supporting this tenuous chunk of building, being much stronger than it first appears. A set of furniture stacked on it appears to be waiting to be taken to the top.

elevator art installation sideways

The Shaft was set in the Sean Kelly Gallery of New York and took visitors through a sideways version of an elevator void. Stuck Elevator at the same gallery gives one a peek at one of those jarring experiences one hopes to avoid for live.

facade illusion urban art

Using mirrors, Erlich has also turned entire buildings on their side and made them into interactive urban playgrounds, as covered here previously and seen above.

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Digital Grotesque: Intricate Full-Scale 3D Printed Room

19 Sep

[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

Digital Grotesque 3D Printed Room 1

Stacked sections of intricate 3D-printed columns of the most baroque nature imaginable make up a cube-shaped, full-scale room. Designers Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger made ‘Digital Grotesque‘ out of eleven tons of sandstone, its outside smooth and flat, with an impossibly ornamented interior. It measures 16 square meters, and has 260 million surfaces.

Digital Grotesque 3D Printed Room 2

These complex, interwoven details and the ways in which the various layers of them join together wouldn’t be possible to craft by hand. Many elements look fractal in nature, repeating endlessly. One side is mirrored by the other in perfect symmetry. The architectural scale, for the designer, has been reduced from bricks to grains of sand.

Digital Grotesque 3D Printed ROom 4

This scale and detail is made possible by a new sand-printing technology that overcomes some of the limitations of 3D printing, enabling large-scale elements that can be layered into a whole. “The design process thus strikes a delicate balance between the expected and the unexpected, between control and relinquishment,” write the design team. “The algorithms are deterministic as they do not incorporate randomness, but the results are not necessarily entirely foreseeable. Instead, they have the power to surprise.”

Digital Grotesque 3D Printed Room 3

“Digital Grotesque is between chaos and order, both natural and the artificial, neither foreign nor familiar. Any references to nature or existing styles are not integrated into the design process, but are evoked only as associations in the eye of the beholder.”

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Fold-Out Room: 12 Ultra-Compact Living Pods & Systems

10 Jul

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

Fold Out Rooms Main
When you live in a small space, every square inch counts, and furniture that can expand and contract on demand makes it a lot easier to fit all the functions you need into your home without feeling overwhelmed with clutter. Modular furniture sets and rooms-within-rooms containing fold-out and slide-out components make clever use of the space available, and the ability to hide things away when they’re not in use will please minimalists, too.

Sleepbox: Tiny Bedroom for Public Spaces

Fold Out Room Sleepbox

Sleepy travelers can catch a night’s sleep in private surroundings with the Sleepbox, a compact lodging pod meant for public spaces like airports and train stations. For those with layovers or unexpected delays, a room-in-the-box right inside the transit station could definitely be an affordable and convenient option.

Cocoon 1 Room Pod

Fold Out Room Cocoon 1

This unusual room-within-a-room is almost as much an art piece as it is a functional living space. Cocoon 1 by Micasa Lab is a plastic pod offering a separated space that provides a sense of privacy and solitude while maintaining a connection to the outside world. It contains built-in furniture, a kitchen and a power pack that can provide either 40 hours of light, or 20 hours of light plus 30 minutes of cooking.

Boxetti: 3 All-in-One Fold-Out Living Spaces

Fold Out Room Boxetti 1

Fold Out Rooms Boxetti 3

Fold Out Room Boxetti 2

Minimalists, rejoice – options that hide virtually everything from view when not in use are not only becoming easier to procure, they’re more stylish than ever, too. The Boxetti Collection by Rolands Landsbergs is a series of fold-out, slide-out living spaces contained within simple white modules. It includes a bedroom box, a living room box, an office and a kitchen.

Sleek and Simple Fold-Out Bedroom Box

Fold Out Rooms Bedroom Oda 1
Fold Out Rooms Bedroom Oda 2

For those in temporary living spaces, or who just don’t care about personalizing their homes, all-in-one box systems like the Room by ODA offer a modular dwelling system that collapses and expands. It comes with three elements – the pod, a media station and a satellite. Colors and materials can be customized.

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Botel: Floating Hotel with Modular Detachable Room Boats

30 May

[ By WebUrbanist in Boutique & Art Hotels & Global. ]

floating hotel room

You may have to move rooms when you arrive at your hotel, but has your room ever had to move you? Instead of static spaces, the sleeping areas in this hotel are dynamic vehicles you can use to depart the core structure in which you are staying.

floating hotel night dock

Ivan Filipovic‘s idea is to let people in different physical contexts to do everything from exploring remote surroundings (in regions difficult to reach by land, for instance) to watching races or other city-side events (in more urban contexts).

floating hotel rooms diagram

The core structure provides all of the expected amenities, including a reservations desks, restaurant, cafe, bar, nightclub, rooftop terrace and swimming pool, but the autonomous room modules are equipped with solar power collectors and global positioning systems to allow them to depart and return on demand.

floating hotel cove experience

Whether they can be realized in a practical way is up for debate, but the concept is exceedingly convincing from an experiential perspective. The solution is a best-of-both-worlds hybrid of adventurous semi-independent world tours and luxury scripted cruise-ship expeditions.

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Hotel on Wheels: Portable Room Travels the World With You

30 Mar

[ By Delana in Boutique & Art Hotels & Global. ]

hotello portable hotel room

Cities all around the world have vast, empty spaces just going to waste – abandoned buildings, empty lots, decommissioned military barracks – but the Hotello wants to put those spaces to use. The Hotello is a tiny, portable hotel room that can go anywhere and provide a comfortable sleeping space no matter where you are.

hotel room on wheels

Designed by Antonio Scarponi and Robert de Luca for the Swiss firm daskonzept, the Hotello starts out as a rather nondescript wheeled trunk. It does the seemingly impossible by packing an entire 4 square meters room into a surprisingly small area – bed, desk, wardrobe and all.

hotello portable hotel room

Thanks to its wheels, the Hotello can be taken almost anywhere. You can set up the room in a matter of minutes by folding out the bed and setting up the metal structure that supports the sound absorbent privacy curtain. A small work space and stool let you catch up on work before bedtime, and the trunk itself acts as a storage area for clothing or other objects.

hotello

Several Hotellos could be placed together to create unique configurations if desired, but a single unit is perfect for the business traveler who simply needs a place to lie down for several hours before work starts again in the morning. Since the portable hotel room doesn’t come with a bathroom, though, it would be wise to plunk the Hotello down in a place near some public facilities.

hotel room in a trunk

Looking beyond the most obvious uses of the Hotello, though, it is clear that a solution like this would be ideal for housing victims of natural disaster. Similar, though hopefully more modest and cost-effective, solutions could be used to house homeless populations in otherwise-abandoned buildings. But of course, part of the project’s appeal is the idea that you can travel around the world with nothing but a suitcase and a red trunk on wheels and always have a comfortable place to sleep at night.

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Driverless Living Space: Future Car Envisioned as Mobile Room

Fold-Out Life: 13 Space-Saving Expanding Room Elements

Furniture Pops Out of Flat-Pack Mat

My Space Fold-Out Play Area for Kids

Pull-Out Dining Room

Expanding Fold-Out Balcony

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Bookshelf Tower and Divider by Marica Vizzuso

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Alphabet Room Divider Bookshelf

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Gear Checklist

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Sleep with the Fishes: Floating Underwater Hotel Room

Weightless Space: Ghostly Floating Room Hovers in Midair

Digital Grotesque: Intricate Full-Scale 3D Printed Room

Fold-Out Room: 12 Ultra-Compact Living Pods & Systems

Sleepbox: Tiny Bedroom for Public Spaces

Cocoon 1 Room Pod

Boxetti: 3 All-in-One Fold-Out Living Spaces

Sleek and Simple Fold-Out Bedroom Box

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