How big the imagination is
Home is how big it is
Just past 2021, in the annual buzzword inventory, the "meta-universe" occupies a place.
This emerging concept has been screened on the Internet, drinking a coffee can hear someone chatting, feeling that I do not understand the meme of the metaverse, and I can't keep up with the rhythm of the times.
What is the metacosm? This concept began in 1992 in the foreign science fiction novel "Avalanche" mentioned Metavrese, where people can have their own virtual avatars, this virtual world is called "metaverse".
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, the metacosm is a virtual world that uses scientific and technological means to link and create, map and interact with the real world, involving VR, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other technologies.
In the eyes of industry giants, metacosm is another investment outlet after "Bitcoin".
Zuckerberg announced that facebook will be renamed Meta, from social platforms to metacosm research and development, Tencent invested $150 million for Roblox, the first stock of metacosmonic concept, and Microsoft and ByteDance have also entered the game.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the metaverse is a new and exciting adventure. VR immersive games give people the Experience of Ready Player One; virtual idols can have concerts, shoot magazine blockbusters, interact with fans, and never "collapse"; hipsters start buying virtual fashion, and even fashion shows are synthesized by virtual models...
△ The movie "Ready Player One" and the virtual idol Lil Miquela
According to official statistics, in 2019, per capita brush mobile phones for 6 hours a day, a quarter of life is carried out online, we are betting more and more time and money in the virtual world, metaverse seems to be an inevitable trend in the future.
So the question is, if the metaverse era really comes, what will our future home look like?
The olfactory Facebook App, in collaboration with London-based digital artist Charlotte Taylor, designed three virtual rooms — streamlined curved walls with large sofas and cushions that present extremely comfortable, relaxing meditation spaces.
In addition to this, there are many indoor designers or digital artists who are building a metaverse home. Today we will appreciate that these 3D renderings with fake realities hide the three major trends of the future home.
01
The interaction of nature and design
In the future, the city will expand wildly, the per capita living space will be tightened, and the natural environment will become a rare resource, and the pastoral life we yearn for may be realized in the meta-universe home.
Jesu s Mascaraque, a designer from Spain, uses the structure of the building to introduce the scenery indoors, from the snowy mountains to the desert, from the towering trees to the colorful falling, as if a landscape painting that has frozen in time.
Minimalist lines, transparent space, with light colors, visually very comfortable, can't help but yearn up, what is the experience of living in such a room?
The shaping of light and shadow is the key to 3D rendering.
Mascaraque mostly uses soft afternoon light, furniture drags out a long shadow, the projection of leaves adds a touch of life to the space, netizens have left messages, this is the idyllic Dream House.
Another designer, Alexis Christodoulou, is a fanatic of plants, and in the renderings he makes, various flowers and plants grow freely, invading and spreading to all corners of space, as if breaking into a fairy tale world.
The court-like colonnade is lined with columns, paved with pure white marble, and the hanging green plants are more vital, and the traces of artificial and natural are blended with each other.
The curtain fluttering with the wind injects soul into the room, and the little dream starts an earthy love sentence: it is not the wind that moves, it is my heartbeat~
02
The ultimate in fantastic colors
The imaginary future world is bizarre and colorful, and when it comes to color aesthetics, science fiction film director Dennis Villeneuve has the most say.
The sunset yellow in "Dune", the cyberther pink blue of Blade Runner 2049, the dreamy fog purple of "Arrival"...
It is foreseeable that the popular color trend in the future is low saturation, more neutral, more soft colors, can soothe people's anxiety, whether from the visual or psychological are more comfortable.
Mue Studio, a video studio focused on 3D design, was founded by Kang Min-jin and Kim Mi-joo, who graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, one studied photography and the other majored in computer science, and together they founded the studio in 2015.
"We have been studying fine art photography for several years and have been thinking about the future direction of exploration. We had the opportunity to attend adobe MAX Global Creative Conference and learn about Adobe Dimension (formerly known as Project Felix), and we realized that this design tool was a powerful way to push creative boundaries from 2D to 3D."
Netizens call these pictures "visual ASMR" and "virtual vacation", they believe that less is more, adhere to the minimalist design, with some subtle details to convey warmth, the overall presentation of a comfortable atmosphere.
Often set against the backdrop of sunset, afterglow, and sunset, it is full of romantic overtones, "In the larger context of psychology, sunrise and sunset represent the cycles of nature, including those of human beings and other life, which is why we like to use sunrise and sunset to express emotions." 」
Six N. Five studios specialize in the use of solid colors in interior design, creating dreamy landscapes in pastel tones, and imaginative magical architecture.
Different color blocks collide to create a new visual effect, bold and harmonious.
They have poetic imaginations, from fictional spaces to meditative environments, from romantic gardens to ethereal seascapes, where man-made structures coexist with nature.
Colour represents emotion, and as the Mue Studio designer put it, "We live in a world that is more connected than ever, especially through digital communication and social media."
But in reality, we often feel that the emotional and practical connection between people and people is disappearing, and the epidemic has further separated society, and we feel more isolated and alienated. We hope that through our work, people can temporarily get rid of their struggles and find a safe harbor in the storm."
03
New structures: ships and caves
With the development of new materials, the future of architecture is no longer limited to the four-square box, has more possibilities, how big the imagination is, how big the space is.
Cave-like design is very popular abroad, it seems to return to the primitive era of cave dwelling, the eclectic streamlined wall surface is full of art, and Parisian designer Hugo Fournier is particularly fond of such designs.
Circular sunroofs can introduce more sunlight, through the refraction of curved surfaces, making the space soft and transparent.
From the outside, it looks like an alien spaceship landing on the water's edge and cliffs, which does have the flavor of science fiction movies.
In fact, such a room has a prototype in reality, the home designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain himself, he advocates the concept of "organic architecture" and "green house", each space is a rounded spherical shape, connected by a narrow passage, introducing sunlight and breeze into the space, so that human habitat can be integrated into nature without a trace.
Another trend draws directly from sci-fi movies, such as the designer Charlotte Taylor mentioned at the beginning, borrowing from the construction of the spaceship, the metal architecture ceiling, the side all-glass design, full of avant-garde futurism.
Six N. Five has designed a similar project, named "If", to enjoy the scene of the House of the Future on the spaceship, and interstellar travel is no longer a dream.
In fact, as early as 1968, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed a ski holiday home with a structure of 4 meters high and 8 meters in diameter, with built-in adjustable seats, a central fireplace that provides heat, oval windows, and a retractable staircase with hatches.
The exterior consists of a steel frame and sixteen pieces of glass fiber reinforced polyester plastic that can be easily bolted together and assembled or disassembled in two days. The entire pod is lightweight and can even be airlifted by helicopter to remote areas, making it easy to build in rough terrain.
Although only about 100 were built, this building epitomizes the ardent yearning for space in the 1960s and embodies utopian architectural activism.
Those wonderful scenes in science fiction movies, the magic buildings with big holes in the brain, may not be seen in real life, but they can be realized in the metaverse.
Whether it is another virtual home in parallel space or a fashion trend in future interior design, it is closely related to our emotional needs.
The desire to be close to nature, to heal the anxiety of the heart, to try more novelty, anything is possible. If you are not limited by real factors, what kind of metaverse home do you yearn for?