Will Your Design Vision Work?

So often, as a designer, you must think about how your design vision will impact your occupants — planning for a not-to-distant future where your vision will be realized and used. For this, you may rely heavily on your own experience of what you think works and what does not, and you may probe into your occupant’s life to understand their likes, dislikes and so on.

Still, there is so much left to simply “hoping” you made the right design decisions for your occupant; and it is time that will tell the success or failure of your built work. Yet, there are new and arising fields that can and will help your architectural design process, as you strive to make informed and talented decisions with your building designs — helping you to stand apart from the rest.

These fields include neuroscience, biomimicry and nanotechnology.

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Sharpen Your Innovative Edge

Eventually, new findings in neuroscience will meet head on with other rising fields like nanotechnology and biomimicry, and this meeting will certainly yield some new techniques for you, as an architect, to greatly expand upon (and in some cases completely revamp) what goes into your building design stages.

As it is, architects already must “predict” the future to some extent, but the best way to increase your probability of creating a successful design that works well is to learn more about Read more

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. Read more

I have heard much talk about kitchens and stores for the future, but as you will see, it is nice to see some prototypes. They actually give us something tangible to think about so we can begin to advance them, challenge them and seize upon great opportunity.

The two following videos explain how a future store and kitchen of the future can work together — integrating them toward a more seamless experience. If you watch both, you will get an idea as to what your own experience might be like if you were to live and use such environments.

Does Life Get Any Easier?

Although they are not exactly interactive, there is much that a user can control and specify. Additionally, due to RFID tags, many of the procedural steps that are necessary today may not be necessary in the future.

However, does life get any easier? I would say that it Read more