MIT Kinetic Design Group
Business Jet Interior Design
The motivation for this project lies in creating interior design solutions that are flexible and adaptive, and at instances, responsive and intelligently active with respect to the changing individual, social and climatic contexts. Accordingly, the goal was to provide a responsive interior space that can be configured as prescribed by the users prior to a specific flight as well as partially reconfigured in-flight. Such adaptability aims to meet the changing needs of the users and their activities/environment for comfort and optimum spatial efficiency. The design proposal introduces to the interior three basic kinetic components, namely sectors, which display variable location (mobility) and variable geometry (transformability). The sectors can technically operate independently; as a complete system, they divide and define zones of the program in the interior. Each is equipped with/provides the technical and the physical/spatial apparatus necessary for various parts of the program.