MIT Media Lab and Yves Béhar Maximize Minimal Space With Robotic Furniture before photo gallery

the influx young professionals in competitive markets like San Francisco, London, Seattle, New York City and Los Angeles led to a shortage of housing available for rent along increasingly prohibitive. Even recognizing this need for housing has increased, many cities are hitting against the wall space available for development. MIT Media Lab and Yves Béhar propose a technological solution + architecture: micro apartments built around robotic modular furniture systems that can automatically reconfigure a room to maximize space at the touch of a button or an application

Ori is composed of a modular tower all in a cabinet containing a bed, a closet, work area, sofa, and shelves. As a Swiss Army knife, the unit can be transformed from a room in a spacious living room and a home office by changing the configuration of each component of furniture.

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All the heavy lifting is done by a combination of actuators connected to electronics and software developed by a team MIT Media Lab dedicated to "creating effective hyper-compatible technological spaces that can help support more affordable, productive, creative and enjoyable for city dwellers." Béhar and his San Francisco studio Fuseproject were tasked to design a aesthetic and usable design to hide the technology inside the furniture module.

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in Ori substance is multi functional furnishing solution that recognizes the negative space and plays an important role in the creation of living long-term housing while offering many of the amenities of the city dwellers desire. Ori systems will be incorporated in the developments in Boston, Washington DC and Seattle from this summer.