When the living room’s automatic blinds slide back up again against the ceiling, we step inside the kitchen. Kitchen facilities and hardware slides in or out view and even changes color automatically through variations in lighting.

Devices for food preparation “recognize” different dishes and decide automatically to cool or warm accordingly. The only thing that remains immobile in this Jetson’s kitchen is an agent-interfaced flat screen terminal with biometrically secured payment facilities, allowing for easy and safe online shopping. Separate bins for glass, paper and more help the accurate charging for tomorrow’s waste through their built-in chips.

We mount the designer staircase and take place in the “home theater”. This area of the house was built and isolated to allow for optimal movie viewing, including acoustically-optimized architecture and a dedicated projector system.

The sleeping’s room is next. We can try out processor-controlled beds that adapt to the sleeper’s physionomy. This can be followed and monitored interactively from the plasma screen that hangs from a rail which is hidden elegantly in the ceiling. The rail allows for an uninterrupted information flow as the occupant can have the screen follow him to the bathroom. In the bathroom again everything is thought out to allow for economic and efficient daily hygiene. Tomorrow’s bathrooms will come with water free toilets, and speech controlled taps.

We step into the children’s bedroom. We notice stress-reducing, softly curving walls and custom-designed, brightly colored furniture with integrated lighting. The inevitable laptop with webcam for fun, duty and surveillance sits on a discreet studying table. As network technology makes the distance-issue obsolete, the “home office” becomes more important. We briefly meet with tomorrow’s interactive multimedia enhanced Human Resource work.

We finish our tour with a drink in the bar where we can see another smart application of the air displacement system. Staff and clients are separated by an invisible barrier of mounting air, thus enhancing hygiene and preventing galley smells from spreading.

Plans for the Future involve installments of similar projects in various metropolitan areas. The founders hope that discoveries coming from interaction with socio-geographic differences on other continents will enable a sharing of knowledge thus providing additional value to the concept.

Living Tomorrow
Address: 1 Indringingsweg, 1800 Vilvoorde, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 263 0133
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