What will work be like in the post-pandemic world?
Home Working, Smart Working, Shared Space. The home and office will find increasingly new and functional balances in our everyday life spaces.
Future Habit(at), the Archiproducts Milano exhibition exploring future lifestyles, has assembled some answers to questions about the future of the Home Office – imagined by Brands and Designers.
In a world where the boundary between domestic and office space is dissolving, a new interpretation of living puts technology at the heart of it all.
And while technology is dematerialising and stripping itself of traditional interfaces, Design is reimagining forms, materials and functions that promote new user experiences.
Archiproducts Milano translates this new way of thinking into hybrid elements. Kitchens that become coworking tables. Walls transformed into inhabitable arches for cuddling up, isolating, finding private space within shared places.
BuzziSpace solutions create small office islands that can be used to find concentration and intimacy in more fluid and multifunctional settings, also thanks to colourful acoustic suspension lamps. In the new Home Office, small soundproofed Framery pods create a high-performance office without sacrificing comfort.
Everything is what it is … and more. The long Desalto table welcomes everyday practices, gatherings and business meetings. The seating combines aesthetics and useability, personalising domestic space and offering comfortable solutions for home working. Real Piel chairs customise rooms with their coloured upholstery. Bedont wooden chairs provide a natural vibe. Desalto’s Strong stool moves the air with its curved forms.
Multifunctionality, sustainability, wellbeing. Sound-absorbing felt upholstery is 100% recycled PET, while pastel shades provide visual calm.
Even the corridor and staircase become places for pausing and not just places of passage.
Three “cocoons” carved out of the wall – entirely covered in sound-absorbing Knauf Ceiling Solutions wood wool sheets. Portholes, cocoons for sitting, lying down, watching a film or listening to music. And maybe taking some notes by writing with your finger on the wooden panels with Touchsmart displays, managed by mui lab home controls.
The biggest room in Via Tortona 31 is transformed into a large workspace. Blue and teal tones dominate the space, whose walls become authentic living architectures. Abitex velvet curtains make it even more striking. The space is furnished with a long wood Buzzispace table – a desk for working, sharing breaks, and holding family get-togethers.
A shared work area and a place to seek isolation and privacy, thanks to the Silentlab pod. Suspended Knauf Ceiling Solutions panels provide the backdrop for the Samsung 360 AC cassette, the Braun wireless acoustic speaker, and Samsung TVs for conferences and meetings. Illumination with the lightweight forms of adjustable Midgaard lamps.
Light, acoustic insulation, multifunctionality. Everything contributes to creating a space where the quality of living and working is totally seamless.
Interrupted. Reimagined. Hybrid.
More than ever, the future of work will focus on the quality of time and space. It might be Smart, in the Home, or even in the Metaverse. One thing is sure. It will never be the same.