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The Philosophy:

In a 'Single life' people are living in smaller apartments with not much storage. Storage in the floor allows quick an easy access. The inspiration coming from the middle Eastern and Asian cultures, where it is common to sit on the floor for meal times, or lounging and relaxing, sleeping.

The interactions:

The boxes would be unseen until they are activated and revealed under the tiles. Objects,products and any bleongings can be stored in these boxes. The boxes can be taken out of their place in the floor and moved around. The box lids can be converted into back rests. So you can sit on the floor and lean against them while reading or maybe eating.

How it is made:

The tiles would be made ofindium tin oxide that would allow two modes. Mode one being the hidding mode, where it can not be seen what is inside the boxes and then mode two is when you reveal what is inside the boxes. As this material we propose is expensive our solution is that the lids could be made of solid pannles. There would be different colour lids so different patterns can be made by moving around the pannles.

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