The project was a promotion by Airbnb Singapore to celebrate the romance of traveling to various homes and cultures around the world. In that regard, it’s a great advertisement for the brand. But the reason we appreciate it is the pure futuristic eye candy of it all, that through projection-mapping alone, designers created some fairly convincing facsimiles of apartments around the world, transforming a space to feel totally different.
In Tokyo, pixels paint sliding shoji screens that open to reveal a garden full of cherry blossoms, while in Bali, the walls turn to bamboo and the furniture turns wicker. Penang is a place where brick and broken plaster muddle into a shabby-chic escape, while Paris features old stone walls, art hung in gilded frames, and a garbage can made of marble.
The effect isn’t perfect—and if you’re standing in the way of the projector, you would leave a shadow on the wall. But even still, it’s intriguing to imagine a world where we could change a room’s interior design, or even its view, with the flick of a switch.
[via designboom]
