Master degree project: PixeLoft – it should make you feel free enough to put your dinning table on the ceiling.

I developed the project “PixeLoft” during my master studies at ENSCI in the workshop of Architecture under direction of Claire Petetin.

Subject: Media House – from rational environment to sensitive living
Certainly this is my favourite project I did during my studies. I proposed an interactive habitat that can adapt and re-adapt continuously to your momentary needs in terms of space usage.
I imagined a concept house that is at the same time tangible and virtual. It encourages you to use you imagination and creativity to build you own environment (image 1). This house should make you feel free enough to put your dinning table on the ceiling.

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PixeLoft is build from dynamic (pink) and fixed (gray and blue) areas (image 2).
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In the walls are installed individual mechanical piston (image 3), that can be activated by a remote device – tablet PC (image 4). Pistons are also visible on the exterior of the house.

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To change the house interior, we use an application on our remote device/tablet PC (image 4).

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By dragging and dropping the virtual elements into the application we activate the mechanical pistons (image 5) .

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When the interior gets it’s desirable shape, the “negative” image of the interior appears on the exterior (image 6).

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