Rooms of the future are going to be unlike nothing you ever expected. You might have heard of Lotus rooms before, but it probably put into your mind smoke filled dim lit rooms packed with people sitting around with lit stubs in their fingers or hookahs hanging from limp hands. The Lotus room of the future, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, will clear your mind in a jiffy and transport you to a world where things contract and expand as you wish.

The Lotus room can fluctuate between two states of either expansion or contraction, allowing you to choose between rooms that are spacey or condensed, appearing to be cocoon from the outside world. The mobile status of the room is achieved by interwoven layers which fold and unfold to provide furniture when the room expands when desired. The concept leaves the owner with a flexible ever-changing view of the room. The Lotus room will be on show between the 10th and 23rd of this November at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Via: Yatzer