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LIVDIN sofa stands for Live and Dine young sofa. It’s a smart and flexible sofa which will be highly functional especially in limited space room. Designed by Terrence Seah at ChangeXDesign, you can easily transform this sofa into a dining table. As you already know, space in our urban dwellings has become at a premium, thus it’s pretty challenging to find space for our domestic activities. LIVDIN sofa has been designed to answer this challenge, it combines the functionality of a sofa with a dining table, a perfect furniture for small living space.

You can enjoy your dinner in front of your television or throw a small dinner party with friends and family, or perhaps you can make space for a home office. LIVDIN sofa helps you save space without sacrificing style, so why waste another square foot?

Designer : Terrence Seah

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Seriously guys, Ludovico furniture set is one of ingenious furniture designs we’ve seen, we desperately want one. Designed by Claudio Sibille, an Uruguayan industrial designer, Ludovico is a miraculously space saver for a small apartment or room. The main goal of this design is not to let that minimum space limit you from maintaining your contemporary décor.

Designer : Claudio Sibille

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I guess I don’t need to say the theme of this furniture design, well the main objective of “Alice in Chairs” furniture set would be to display parallel worlds and different dimensions in a living room. Cards on the wall and a table hiding Alice’s chairs are the aesthetic composition for a young couple’s loft. It’s a new way to organize and optimize any room for urban living lifestyle.

Designer : Kaira D’or

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Zaha Hadid Architects, keeping their usual fluid movement language intact, has designed Form in Motion, a groundbreaking exhibition center for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The design incorporates wavy geometries that give it a great touch of urbanism, while displays a swelling three dimensional environment both from inside and out. The design flow has been perfectly carried out by active combination of architecture, landscape and geology, and the point where these elements intersect by giving it a wave like movements with constantly shifting perspectives.

Designer : Zaha Hadid Architects

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Jakub Szczęsny from Centrala has designed possibly the thinnest house in the world, Keret House. This art installation will be built in the crack between the buildings on 22 Chłodna St. and 74 Żelazna St. and shall become the narrowest house in Warsaw, Poland. The interior will vary between 122 to 72 centimeters on the narrowest spot.

Designer : Jakub Szczęsny

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Wondering where to recharge your electronics while you are out with your friends? Worry no more! The new MIT SOFT Rockers serves as an exceptional charging station disguised primarily as outdoor rocking loaf furniture. The SOFT Rocker is unlike other hard urban infrastructure, where it leverages its surroundings in a dynamic manner using human power of balance in order to create a synergetic 1.5-axis 35-watt solar tracking system. Run any USB device, charge your cell phones and have good time with your friends under cool lighting loops especially at nighttime for social gathering.

The SOFT Rockers takes the shape of a leaf-like loop. It has been designed in such a way to adapt to the latitude plus sun angle of several sites using parametric design software as well as automated fabrication on a frivolous Kuka robotic arm. Combining scientific and low-tech design strategies, SOFT Rocker generates electricity, however, engages the body and as well works as excellent furniture by hand. It recasts power generation chiefly as an integrated and widespread public activity instead of a centralized, peculiar off-site project of engineering.

SOFT ROCKER TEAM
Sheila KENNEDY, MIT Professor of the Practice of Architecture
James BAYLESS, UC MArch 2014, KVA Intern
Kaitlyn BOGENSCHUTZ, UC BS Arch 2013, KVA Intern
Wardah Inam, MIT PhD Candidate 2015, Electrical Engineering
Jungmin NAM, GSD MArch 2009, KVA Designer
Shevy ROCKCASTLE, MIT SMarchS 2011
Phil SEATON, MIT MArch 2012
Matt TRIMBLE, MIT MArch 2008, RADLAB
Adnon ZOLIJ, MIT BS 2010, Electrical Engineer Vicor, Inc.

All Images by Philip Ropert

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What could be the most efficient solution of organizing your house with all necessary furniture when you are living in a small place? Buying relatively smaller one that can barely meet your requirements? Or pretending that you don’t need them when you can feel their need in every step of your daily life? How about furniture that can shrink? Sounds good right? Shrink Furniture can give you the opportunity to utilize your interior space most efficiently by enabling two chairs and a table getting shrunk into one unit, making it possible to place other useful items when they are not in use. When required, just slide out the concept to accommodate two persons and a table for additional use.

Designer : Bhagvanji. M. Sonagra

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When people goes for a picnic, a car that can provide room for social gathering parked in an urban landscape is always desirable, which was the main inspiration of designing the Renault Picnic concept car. This car can become an urban furniture, where people can re-acquaint themselves with the surrounding natural environment with its various functionalities. It features LED-impregnated DOL that allows adjustable and customizable tinting patterns that will make the car’s surface a public art. The easy access sliding doors allow convenient entrance. You can attach a bicycle with the rear bumper and can arrange some extra sittings with tailgate rumble seats that slides-out from the front trunk. The Renault Picnic features low-cost and minimalist dashboard with i-pod compatibility which is ideal for new drivers. The modular seating arrangement of this car ensures equal comfort to be enjoyed for all passengers either inside, on atop the rear bumpers or on the front tailgate.

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UP is a product line that includes both furnishing and lighting elements for urban environments aiming to connect different people, markets and cultures. This design is a result of a young and inspiring team who think differently in principle and features from a bicycle stand and bollard to a bench. This formal design idea is carried throughout the entire product line and will enable the user to plan and produce more aesthetically rational cityscape. This product was developed in order to make our future cities more pleasant, attractive, and livable, and make the people happier than ever.

Just because of the efficient functionality of this product line, it has received various positive feedbacks from many important personnel. The starting point of designing this useful product collection was the simple and rounded bollard. Different functions were adjoined by making various incisions and the main outline was converted into a wide-ranging and versatile range of products. In order to get the most from the product line, placing and organizing them accordingly is very much important. Implementing these artifacts will surely bring a significant difference in the appearance of our current city life which will be able to change the entire lifestyle of the urban city people.

Designer : Norway Says via HomeDosh

EyeStops is a concept device for bus stops which will allow the passengers to do a lot more activities than just sitting idle and wait. The SENSEable City Lab of MIT has designed this solar-powered booth that are outfitted with touchscreen displays that will show necessary information like bus schedules or the shortest route for a certain destination. Even more, you will be able to browse the web, check the air quality, see the exact location of your desired bus, interact with a mobile device and use the booth as a community message board to post announcements and ads. On top of that, this booth will surely change the appearance of a traditional bus stop.

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The Landmark bus shelter is the central component of a product family that has been developed as a uniform design concept for the city furnishing of Hamburg in order to convey a harmonious overall image of the urban area. Modern elements and clear lines enable a universal use of this bus shelter. Integrated into one of the two side walls is an advertising showcase for double-sided posters in the City Light format. The right side wall contains a lighting system that shines in changing colors. This provides for alternating light and color moods at night. Thus, the bus shelter is stage set as an item of street furniture and moved into the focus of attention.