In Style with Arts and Technology
Living and working in a digitally submersive environment similar to the world presented in Minority Report is no longer fictional. Modern interior designers enrich our life by incorporating avant-garde technology and innovative products into the residential and commercial spaces, balancing functional and aesthetic needs.
Living and working in a digitally submersive environment similar to the world presented in Minority Report is no longer fictional. Modern interior designers enrich our life by incorporating avant-garde technology and innovative products into the residential and commercial spaces, balancing functional and aesthetic needs.
James Law, Chairman and CEO and Chief Cybertect of James Law Cybertecture, an award winning multi-disciplinary design company founded in 2001 with designers of futuristic architecture, interiors and products, talks about the latest trends in modern interior design.
“Various directions are seen in today’s interior design. Sometimes a more natural approach using natural materials is taken to create a cozy environment. Yet some people focus on arts, decorating their homes with art collections to create a cultural feeling. New technology and home automation are also highlights. Altogether it evolves into an interesting moment in interior design where space, arts and technology blend in to create comfortable interior spaces.”
The firm’s innovative AMC Pacific Place project fuses technology with art. “Architects in the 21st Century focus a lot more on the importance of integrating sophisticated lifestyle-touches into their design. We aim at creating an environment that is able to deliver end-users a technologically astute space.”
Law points out that more and more new technologies have been integrated into our spaces. “This is obviously a direction in design. We are now able to control many objects in space via the internet through wireless systems. This new trend creates room for unlimited possibilities – how we can manage our daily life and space which are connected via the internet, this is termed as the Internet of things.”
He believes that the current architecture which traditionally concentrates on conventional space will soon be concurrently wired up with technology. “The new applications and new possibilities for using the space will be increased through intelligent and creative applications. I called this Cybertecture,” he explains this revolutionary concept.