TOBI SCHNEIDLER
German Architect, Smart Studio
Architecture degree from the AA in London.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Remote Home
The Remote Home is an exploration by German Architect Tobi
Schneidler that uses a communication system to connect two
apartments in two different cities. The project was presented
simultaneously in two remote places, at the Science Museum in
London and at the Raumlabor in Berlin. It extends the idea of
the home as a private and situated space to one that connects
homes in two different cities while still allowing individuals to
maintain that sense of privacy which is not possible with video
walls or cameras.
The Remote Home's floor space is distributed between London
and Berlin stitched together by digital networks. The system
consists of sensors, kinetic devices, and an interactive light
installation that together provide the means of communation.
The main focus is the Busy Bench which is embedded with a
kinetic device in each seat enabling segments of the sitting area
to move up and down in response to the movements of the Bench
in the other city. Motion sensors detect when a person is walking
activating a kinetic device within a remote textile wall in each
apartment. This walking movement causes the wall to bulge in
response to the walking causing the feeling and presence of a
person. Another element is the interactive glass table filled
with fine gravel which allows the user to manually reposition
the gravel resulting in the changing of a matrix of lights in the
ceiling of the other remote space. This element would only
exist in one of the remote spaces allowing one user to express
his mood in a simple drawing or scribble of the gravel. The final
interactive element is a bag which is connected to all the sensors
in both apartments that when triggered results in the bag's
illumination.
Schneidler that uses a communication system to connect two
apartments in two different cities. The project was presented
simultaneously in two remote places, at the Science Museum in
London and at the Raumlabor in Berlin. It extends the idea of
the home as a private and situated space to one that connects
homes in two different cities while still allowing individuals to
maintain that sense of privacy which is not possible with video
walls or cameras.
The Remote Home's floor space is distributed between London
and Berlin stitched together by digital networks. The system
consists of sensors, kinetic devices, and an interactive light
installation that together provide the means of communation.
The main focus is the Busy Bench which is embedded with a
kinetic device in each seat enabling segments of the sitting area
to move up and down in response to the movements of the Bench
in the other city. Motion sensors detect when a person is walking
activating a kinetic device within a remote textile wall in each
apartment. This walking movement causes the wall to bulge in
response to the walking causing the feeling and presence of a
person. Another element is the interactive glass table filled
with fine gravel which allows the user to manually reposition
the gravel resulting in the changing of a matrix of lights in the
ceiling of the other remote space. This element would only
exist in one of the remote spaces allowing one user to express
his mood in a simple drawing or scribble of the gravel. The final
interactive element is a bag which is connected to all the sensors
in both apartments that when triggered results in the bag's
illumination.
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Images
Remote Bag
London Exhibition Space
Berlin Exhibition Space
london exhibition space
Berlin exhibition space
interacting
Interactive Light Table
interacting with light table
Interactive Sofa applied to other situations
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