interactive diagram of the RemoteHome

The RemoteHome is a flat share that will exist in two distant cities at the same time: London and Berlin. Both spaces are electronically connected through the Internet, to turn furniture and architectural elements into tangible and sensual means of communication. Sensory and kinetic devices, as well as an interactive light installation allow for the exchange between this remotely living group of friends. A mobile wireless artefact, in the shape of a transforming interactive bag, can be taken on journeys to stay emotionally in touch with the RemoteHome.


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The RemoteHome was for the first time presented simultaneously in two remote places: the Science Museum in London and the Raumlabor in Berlin.
Opened in 2000 the Science Museum's Wellcome Wing houses a series of interactive galleries focusing on contemporary science issues. The Raumlabor in Berlin Mitte is a gallery and collaborative work space in the cities cutting edge gallery district. Both exhibitions will be open daily during the same time window. Visitors are invited to become temporary flat mates both in Berlin or London, separated by hundreds of miles.


Ambient scribbles: interactive light table

The project is an architectural response to the emerging notion of a remote-society; a society that is forming personal bonds beyond sharing origin or geographical proximity, a culture that is constantly on the move.
Information technologies, in all its shapes, have led to a separation between the body of the messenger and the message itself. Relationships between people are increasingly sustained, formed or even ended over long distances, through the use of communication technologies, like the mobile phone, e-mail or instant messaging.

The RemoteHome is proposing more intuitive ways of communicating and exchanging presence. The materiality of the architecture becomes the medium, the space transforms into a metaphysical reflection of its inhabitants.