VILLAGE combines the utility of an automated shade curtain and a portable laser projection device designed to be used in the kitchen, home office, or even as a workout instructor.

With nearly 39% of households categorized as a single person occupancy dwelling, alongside ranking as the 9th most expensive city to live, Seoul, South Korea has emerged as a hot bed of creative multi-use and space saving designs. If you need any proof of the claim, just take a look at VILLAGE, a concept imagined by Seunghyun Ko, Seohyun Park, Minji Kang, and Ye Jin Lee as a novel means of integrating a portable projection system into the form/utility of an automated window treatment.
Co-designer Seunghyun Ko describes VILLAGE as “a living product that proposes a new lifestyle experience of ?separate and together? for single-person households living in a single room, based on the concept of ?furnitureization of appliances.'”
Integrating a portable projector unit into an automated curtain shade system is certainly a unique approach to hiding technology in plain sight. It seems perplexingly out of the blue until one connects the dots ? dimming natural ambient light improves a projector’s performance in brightness and clarity.

The central projection unit, a design that looks remarkably similarly in shape and size to a slightly truncated Sonos Roam portable audio speaker, secures into a wall mounted frame by magnets, sliding automatically to the left or right according to ...