14 DAY TRIAL // Remember when you were in college and you had to live cramped up with one or two roommates in a super tiny enclosing consisting of four walls?
Well, things don’t get any better if you’re one of those people renting in the urban jungle in places like the Big Apple or San Francisco, as you’ll probably end up sacrificing space and comfort for cost.
But researches at MIT have come up with a solution to this problem with the CityHome project. CityHome is basically a 200 square-foot / 18.5 square-meters modular unit, which can transform into a full 840 square-foot / 78 square-meters apartment by virtue of waving your wand…I mean hands.
Just think of owning an apartment in a box that can be controlled via Wii-like gestures and let’s expand from there.
CityHome basically lets you control the outlines of your apartment without you having to lift a thing. Basically, the modular apartment is made up of a bunch of home components that can be reconfigured by virtue of air gestures.
CityHome’s central piece is called the RoboWall, which is a key module of the unit that is the base of all home reconfiguration.
Reconfigurations can mean the addition of extra rooms like a guest bedroom and so on. So if you’re having a dinner party, you can gesture until the table and chairs come forth from their hidden locations. Following the same line of thought, you can transform the kitchen into the bedroom and so on.
Check out the video below to see the concept in action.
