Greg Lynn presented “RV Prototype,” a robotic model as part of the “Future Primitives” exhibition program at the Interieur Design Biennale 2012, held in Kortrijk, Belgium from October 20-28, 2012.
The installation was linked by the theme Future Primitives offering different investigations of which essential elements played a role in our future living environment.
RV PROTOTYPE House is a 1/5th scale model of a house that increases living space by rotating in two axes on a robotic base. In addition to a floor in one orientation, one wall and the ceiling surface can be rotated as new floors. 150m2 of living surface is realized within a 60m2 footprint. Made of a lightweight cored carbon fiber fabric the entire shell weighs less than 50 kilos allowing it to rotate freely.
Greg Lynn interprets the ‘Future Primitives’ theme in an especially daring and visionary way. He has reflected about the mobility aspects of living in a home and developed an ‘RV’ — a Room Vehicle. RV has robotic aspects, is compact, round and sensual, comfortable and intelligent. Lynn considers it a worthy alternative to the bombastic villas and stately mansions from past and present! His concept takes into account the need for a minimum CO2 footprint and careful use of materials. With his Room Vehicle, Greg Lynn wants to create an experience tha is closer to amusement parks or the feeling of wellbeing and satisfaction after an intensive training run.
Interior design and furniture in the Room Vehicle are immovably attached to the frame. As a user of the room, comfort is to be found in a manner that is closer to a mountain goat, a Pilates disciple or Spiderman, rolling, climbing, tumbling and wheeling over the ergonomic surfaces of the Room Vehicle. It has nothing in common with luxury, but everything with new types of dwelling and residing. The new materials and construction method of the RV prototype (to see in hal 6) replace classic steel or bricks and mortar of traditional buildings. Room Vehicle is first of all a room, which immerses and confronts the user with new and intelligent technology, a room which full fills new needs and desires.
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