*I certainly hope to see this, because the Space Caviar book “SQM: the Quantified Home” should be of great interest to anyone involved in IoT issues and architecture.
*I happen to be in this SQM book, but my casual remarks are some of the least interesting of the many essays in it.
RAM House:
Rituals of privacy in the age of the smart home
Space Caviar’s near-future proposal of the electric domestic will be presented in the courtyard of Palazzo Clerici as part of Atelier Clerici during Salone del Mobile Milan.
Does your home have an airplane mode?
RAM House, designed by Space Caviar and produced by Italian company Prokoss-Mobilrot, is a domestic prototype that explores the home’s response to a new definition of privacy in the age of sentient appliances and signal-based communication. As the space of the home becomes saturated by “smart” devices capable of monitoring their surroundings, the role of the domestic envelope as a shield from an external gaze becomes less relevant: it is the home itself that is observing us.
The RAM House responds to this near-future scenario by proposing a space of selective electromagnetic autonomy. Within the space’s core, Wi-Fi, cellphone and other radio signals are filtered by various movable shields of radar-absorbent material (RAM) and faraday meshing, preventing signals from entering and - more importantly - escaping. Just as a curtain can be drawn to visually expose the domestic interior of a traditional home, panels can be slid open to allow radio waves to enter and exit, when so desired. RAM House is a proposal of cohabitation with technology other than by a default constant presence.
Atelier Clerici
via Clerici 5
20121 Milan
14 — 19 April 2015
daily, 10am — 8pm
atelierclerici.com
spacecaviar.net