The architecture of sleep
the architecture of sleep¶
Sleep Studio investigates the indeterminate realm of the unconscious to explore new forms of architecture. After reimagining a traditional sleeping unit (bed) as an interface with the unconscious, individual sleep pods were finally agglomerated into protypical collective sleeping spaces.
Prototype #1: The student dormitory consists of a mobile preparation module, equipped with showers, lockers and change rooms, which leads to the pod entry dock. Once ensconced in a sleep pod, students ascend (with the help of an automated winch system and a helium filled region) as they nod off. The altitude of the floating pods is computer-controlled to relate to the level of consciousness of the user inside (the higher up the less brain activity). To passers by, the sleeping pods taken as a whole produce a kind of map of the collective consciousness of the student body at any given time.
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