Ori, a robotic furniture company short for origami, recently launched the pocket office: An almost-7-foot-tall sliding desk that, with the tap of an app, expands from a 30-inch-deep cabinet into a full-size desk with storage and library shelves. When sealed, it’s a sleek TV console with shelving and a Scandinavian aesthetic; when it opens, it splits down the middle to create an office nook with a retractable desk on one wall and a bookcase and standing-desk setup on the other.
Through digitisation and using personalised medicine, health centres, and hospitals will form a part of networked home care with a health care model that is mobile and directly accessible to homes. (Digital & Building Information Modeling Italy).
Buyers are now asking for all-inclusive housing solutions that prioritise physical safety and mental wellbeing. These means common areas designed in the most diverse, and connected ways. Easy access within reach from the gym to the condominium greenhouse or the Amazon locker room.
In the end, we are moving towards a new model of socialisation, that is better connected and secure. The houses and buildings go beyond the concept of living space, they become places that are as self-sufficient as possible, complete with services capable of withstanding the shockwave of a possible new pandemic and long periods of isolation.