Yes that's right. In the future we are not going to need buildings any more, chairs are the way forward!
"Designer Eduardo McIntosh has proposed a way of putting all the
functions of a home into a single chair."
Isn't the main function of a home/buildings in general to provide
shelter?
Called Autonomous Living Unit, the project envisages furniture
that could be installed in derelict buildings and deserted housing
projects to “provide for the basic needs of the 21st century human
being.”
Autonomous Living Units is a somewhat satirical project that stands
at the intersection of the current housing crisis, the tendency of
people in developed countries to live on their own and the trend of
turning architecture into a consumer product.
He is basically being ironic and suggesting that our values as human beings has been reduced to its principal values.
Look at these beautiful renders. I have stared to demonstrate how to develop spaces in my other blog, but if you get good at it it can lead you to creating images like this!
There is a very raw and constructivist element to this project along with the ideas of Dystopia; that theses 'shelters' have been made out of the ruins of buildings, yet people are still able to use them to survive. Maybe it is a message to the governments about the tensions surrounding nuclear arms? Especially seeing as the Iran situation is getting worse.
As always let me know what you think!
