Designer Eduardo McIntosh has proposed a way of putting all the functions of a home into a single chair.
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 Unit was presented as part of an exhibition called Future Cities: Past, Present at the d3 gallery in New York last month. Here are more details from designer Eduardo McIntosh:
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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.
The project poses a scenario in which living units (homes) have evolved into the most minimal yet visually alluring objects that can still provide for the basic needs of the 21st century human being.
Because of the morphing of architecture into furniture, the Living Units could be inserted in derelict areas and ruined housing projects.
This project was exhibited among others at the d3 Gallery in New York for the “Future Cities: Past, Present” exhibition in April 2009.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
really? how can you be so idealist and pessimist?
May 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
but really i haven’t come up with anything better
May 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Anyone ever read E.M. Forster’s famous short story, “The Machine Stops”? I think the woman in the story, Vashti, would probably be enveloped in a contraption like this.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Sweet, for a video game. But truly, I think Mr. McIntosh is kidding. …Graphically pleasing to look at.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
With little adjustment it will be a nice erotic toy
May 26th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
its the matrix pod 1.0 lol
May 26th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Bit of a couch-potato’s daydream – the Swiss Army knife of chairs, but, beyond informing us where it can be put and that it can be used whilst wearing 5″ heels, how is it actually intended to work..?
May 26th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I’m with Tomi. It’s a fun idea, but so unbelievably lazy to have stopped the thinking process at the conceptual level and just drawn something to look randomly sci-fi. How about hashing out some specifics?
May 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Very nice design…, very nice object…
Very interesting questions to the inhabit subject, and really cool design… Good stuff!
May 26th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
super nice and original. Love it!
May 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Ummmm…..
May 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Pure furniture Porn!!! Love it .
“all the functions of a home into a single chair” I dont understand how??
May 27th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Very curious graffiti on the walls, though I think if you got those woofers going you could have some serious structural issues.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
But does it float?
May 27th, 2009 at 11:51 am
you’ve kind of already lost when you feel compelled to explicitly state that your project is “somewhat satirical” in the first sentence…
May 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Seen Wall-E? Dont live your life in a chair. Quite fun little project though.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
where’s the toaster?
May 27th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Tim Burton in a parallel life as a bad design student
May 27th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Nobody here has a clue… Eduardo is not serious, of course not! This is his attempt to convey how incredibly slothful the over-privileged consumer has become… rather effective I think
May 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
wont make a comfy bed, no cooker, washin machine etc… i think the homeless would think the world had gone mad and the designers are taking the piss out of them somewhat… just a bit…
May 27th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
All we really need is the chair from Idiocracy.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
tries to be a provocative joke…
May 27th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Really? this is not a living unit, and if it´ll be surely is not for people that need live in a little space… the living unit is created by extremely situations, like homeless, natural disaster or any kind of emergency, associate whit low cost and non-space, not like this… this is a toy, like wii, or any game system… please…design for be cool?
May 28th, 2009 at 12:10 am
“In Your Room”, Depeche Mode
May 28th, 2009 at 12:14 am
sad story!=D
May 28th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Awesome..totally cool. and outta this world! Great work..
May 29th, 2009 at 11:24 am
reminds me of those simulation-pods from matrix 1.0!!!…..
we have started peeping throught the looking..at last!
May 29th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Does anyone else remember All That? on Nickelodeon? Now that chair was the all in one.. haha. If they ever offered a class that tried to design the most outrageous chair concept and then have you build a 1:1 mock up.. I would definitely take that.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:12 am
(response to – hmmm) of course you can be an idealist and a pessimist? Its the pessimism that provokes and drives the urge for idealism.
Whether this be through designing dystopia, theres always an underling agenda for
a positive change.