Challenges Facing Bedroom Design for the Future (Video)
Interesting ideas are cropping up concerning how bedrooms of the future might look and feel. Certain design strategies target residential applications while others target accommodations away from home. Many of the ideas can be used in both scenarios.
So, a key emphasis of bedroom design has typically been for sleeping. The “bed” is central to what makes a good “bed-room” in applications like hotels, hospitals and homes. Sleeping in your bed is important – as it can help you heal, rest, de-stress and so on. It seems efforts to revamp bedrooms largely focus on what can be done to make this “heart” of the room optimal.
Bedroom Designs for the Future
So you have some basis for what I am talking about, here is a peak at a few prototypes for just such applications.
Integrating Boundaries that Filter
Although I am glad to see such progress and attention paid to such an important part of human health and happiness like sleeping, I do seem some difficult challenges ahead as technology embeds itself within our bedrooms.
For instance, where will the boundary of “bedroom” be? I can see applications like the one in Amsterdam (video above) especially being used in smaller spaces. Imagine having a small loft apartment where your sleeping area is a bed with mobile screen barriers that slide to define privacy. It could be a tremendous space saver.
But, what about sounds, smells, air quality, etc.? At some point bedroom boundaries are “defined” — but these don’t necessarily have to be so abrupt.
You see, the sound barrier of the bedroom may differ in “physical placement” from the air quality barrier. Instead of thinking as future bedrooms as being extremely enclosed or wide open, it might be best to think of future bedroom designs as providing “filters” instead of barriers.
For example, if I had a darkened screen visually block out the rest of the room, I might still hear, smell or breathe unwanted stimuli that would interfere with sleeping. Or I might want to hear a child in the next room while still having a rest in a darkened sleeping place. Either way, boundaries may need to have the option to be controlled, tweaked and/or removed.
Personalization Toward User End Goals and Needs
How might personalization be incorporated into a design for a bedroom of the future? That is something I would like to see.
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