The Challenge
Since the era of troglodytism, humankind has been ceaseless in developing comfortable and convenient living spaces. Our kind’s society has undergone several major paradigm shifts, from the farming and fishing age to the industrial age, and has now entered the information age where our lifestyle is urbanized. We are experiencing the prosperity of science and technology and the convenience of life that has never been seen before in the human history.
We are creating the concept of “smart life” with the digital technology device. We enjoy living in a comfortable and safe environment with the quickness and convenience of information acquisition. The new digital lifestyle brings an opportunity for developing smart houses to let us all live in the technology, not live with anymore.
Past Household Type
Past Population
Present Household Type
Present Population
Future Household Type
Future Population
Living in the Past
More Active / Less Stay
Roughly 20 years ago, four appliances—the refrigerator, color TV, stereo, and washing machine—were “must-haves” of a typical household. The refrigerator and washing machine are lauded for their time-saving benefits, by decreasing one’s frequency of grocery shopping, cooking, and doing laundry. The color TV and the stereo, on the other hand, provided endless entertainment. in a house; Three bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a laundry room, and one backyard were minimum requirements back in the 80s when the multigenerational household was the norm. Shelves and racks were used storing video.
Living in the Present
More Individual / Less Social
Space is more compacted and integrated, such as kitchen; dining and living room can be combined as one big open space. Due to influences of technology, office space can be found integrated into a space for working at home. Opposed to traditional furniture that is large and sturdy and convenient for large gatherings of friends or families, modern furniture is evolving towards a smaller and more compressed outlook which take up a less use of space. We take our laundry out, often eat out and do less cooking and housework. We find ourselves constantly glues to a screen since medias such as 4k TV, desktop, computer, laptop, tablet, and smartphones are so convenient and all around. Instead of face to face real-time communication, people are less engaged in
Living in the Future
More Social / Less Work
The home has always been a space in which we can see the changes in how people live. It serves as a canvas for people to collect, curate and present objects that represent their lifestyle and aspirations. We can also see how the use of space within the home has taken on fluidity, leaving behind the divide between formal and informal rooms. So what are the desires of our future selves and by extension, our private space in 2040? What’s changing in how we socialize, entertain, cook and even sleep in the home of the future?
Entertainment
Future home entertainment systems will be out of this world. By combing future augmented reality, virtual reality and mediated reality movies and television will be more interactive than ever before. People will play a gold or tennis with their victual friend while watching breaking news.
Work / Live / Shop
Future home entertainment systems will be out of this world. By combing future augmented reality, virtual reality and mediated reality movies and television will be more interactive than ever before. People will play a gold or tennis with their victual friend while watching breaking news.
Family Centric
The future kitchen will take advantage of robots to do chores such as cleaning, organizing, and cooking. Some of this technology is happening now. Engineers have made great strides in recent years developing more realistic and functional robotics that can recognize human speech and respond to it or do specific tasks around the house.
Health / Safty / Independence
Future home security will also be of the utmost importance. All future home will be built with age-appropriate child proofing already in place. A smart floor will be installed in every home. The concept of the smart floor is transforming the floor into an intuitive touch screen with sensor-enabled floor covering.
