Living Tomorrow | House of the future
November 3, 2011
Wannahaves | Living Tomorrow was founded in 1991 by architects Frank Belien and Peter Bongers. Their mission was to create a platform on which several companies could show their innovative ideas. Have you ever wondered what a future home will look like? We have been there, so watch here and find out.
Wikipedia | Living Tomorrow is a research oriented company with projects in the cities of Brussels and Amsterdam. It focuses upon opening what it calls “The Houses of Tomorrow.” Living Tomorrow is a meeting place for innovative companies to introduce visitors to products and services that can improve the quality of living and working in the near future. Social, economic and technological developments are observed and are converted into realistic and recognizable applications in the complex. 80% of the displayed solutions are ready for the market, while 20% are future-oriented visions.
Living Tomorrow selects carefully leading-edge companies, each prominent in their field of expertise. Together they integrate their products, services and technologies in a future oriented way.
Living Tomorrow opened its first “House of the Future” in 1995, which immediately attracted attention. After a second successful project in Belgium, in which the concept evolved into the “House and Office of the Future,” the first international complex was opened in Amsterdam in 2003. This grand opening attracted a lot of media attention. In January 2007 Living Tomorrow opened its current project “House, Office and Creative Industries of the Future” which expand the original home and office concepts to include extra aspects of a person’s lifestyle. This project will run until 2012.
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Comments (6)
by ThomasReitsma
Don’t want to be a party pooper but I think this is rather silly. I’ve hardly seen anything impressive, nothing money can’t already buy.. Again it’s all about commercial interest and little about innovation or rigorous change. Just as “ilo123″ I’m wondering why they’re calling it environmentally friendly. Not to say a futuristic house can’t have high energy consumption gadgets but I would expect the house at least for the most part to power itself by clever green technologies. I’m a little disappointed but this nevertheless proves Ray’s statement about the intuative linear view most people have, who try to predict the future. Frankly, I would be very surprised if the real houses in the future, five years from now (especially with that pricetag !!) will be so ehm 2011ish
by leomorg
You’re not a party pooper. This thing was created a few years back and is backed by a load of big corporations and appears, by the look of this clip, to be a giant commercial for shiny gadgets and vertically integrated services (what Bruce Sterling called “stacks” in his SXSW2012 closing talk (http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992407) ) and steers clear of the relevant features of energy efficiency/alternative energies (climate change), the needs of the not-so-rich and developing parts of society and the world and last but not least the coming biotech-revolution. And there is this interesting bit about Philip Morris using the predecessor of the current exhibition as a promotional tool (http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/4/375.full).
by ilo123
Frankly. I do not like this house. Why do you call it “environmentally friendly” having lots of electronic gadgets without real necessity and eating up energy? Where is nature or, at last, it’s imitation – grass, trees, flowers, water? I will imagine a future house rather a log cabin type with MINIMUM of gadgets.
by djsutton
I would like a house that cleaned itself! How about gadgets that really do remove dust particles from the air, glass and tile that vaporized dirt and scum, an automatic dog ( child) washer, whole body warm air dryers to eliminate bath towels, vacuum systems that work by themselves- stuff like that. I can remember my grocery list.
by RobinSongs
Isn’t a virtual house a little better?
by sirhotalot
I’d like to see a more practical version of this in an average house and apartment.