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Great Flex

Family event central creates a wealth of experience option with the Food MOD adjacency.

Couples Retreat

retreat Flex

Couples retreat in concert with HUB MOD offers many revitalization and flexing options.

Accessible flexing is a fundamental elemental design principle. Each space is designed to flex to all levels of human body challenges. The ability to flex for a short time recovery or for the transition for a wellaged living environment. Inter-generational living is a focus of the flexing and maturing of the dwelling over time. Option for senior care is elemental living options. Flexing design philosophy creates layers of options ready to create a new space ready to meet the next human needs challenge that is unique to each family unit.

Seasonal flexing is layers of function in the design and spaces to take advantage of the interaction between IN and OUT spaces. Capturing the garden experience and charging the whole body experience space creation. Warm breeze in the spring is welcomed into the home perfumed by the blooming garden. Sounds of happy birds offer a jam secession of music to enhance a food making event. The touch of sunshine on the skin helps to ignite the spring fever for a new season of garden creation and enjoyment.

MODs are designed with ability to arrive and quickly transform the the adjacent spaces while provide new space. Side porch MOD above installs under the open porch created by the continuation of the Core plan roof system assembly. Creation of an all season space as an extension of the Great Flex space. Overhead glass door allows for the continued open porch space with a quick operation of the door the garden infusion is activated. Side porch becomes a threshold between the Great flex and the side play yard and garden. Flexing potential for the great flex is further advanced by the arrival of the side porch MOD. Whole body experience is amplified with many levels of interaction with the IN ? OUT environment. Side porch MOD becomes a filter for the great flex spaces while still maintaining views to the garden beyond.

Composite page above illustrates the flexing potential of the side porch MOD. Music room to spare bedroom open plan space is layered with creating and recreating revitalized spaces. As a shaded porch or a sun washed winter retreat it still acts as blurring of the lines between IN / OUT spaces.

Revitalize flex is activated by ISE or Interactive Skin Enhancements arrival. ISE are modular units designed as plug and play units that are designed to plug and play with the exterior skin or envelope of the dwelling. Retreat bay arrives and activates the sequence of flex to enhance the wall and retreat flex space. This escape pod like space compliments the core function of Retreat flex. A great location for reading a story before a child’s nap time time. A couple retreat during the child’s nap time. Arrive and Depart is and ISE that activates the corridor transition space for access to family gear central. Organizational tools for active interaction of family preparing for the days journey and then return from the days excursion.

Revitalize flex can be as simple as a new location of furniture elements within the open plan space of a flex space. Composite page above illustrates some of the options for activation of the layers of flex for the Retreat flex space. Seasonal change of the head of bed to an interior wall for winter can be a simple need that can reactivate the space for the winter months. Flexing can also help meet the needs of the family for particular stages in the family life cycle. A new born young couple retreat space has needs that a teen age child couple would need. With open space plan and mobile multinational furniture items create an open palette for creating a new retreat space.