Deployable Living Lab (DLL)

Design

Deployable living Lab consists of sensing, storing and processing equipments. Processing and storage equipments are housed by the main enclosure. Although some of the sensing equipments are housed by the main enclosure majority of them are distributed all around the house.

Our major concers in designing the enclosure that will house the equipment were;

• minimally invading test participants` house
• creating a portable equipment for easy transportation and storage but once set up stable and self standing.
• designing a housing for the equipment that we have at the moment (a comlete list and specifications of the components are available in components page)
• blending of the enclosure to the objects in a home environment
• designing as simple as possible for assembly and duplication to allow other researchers to create duplicates of the equipment.
• heat and noise generated by the equipment

Creating the enclosure for the tools we have at hand was our primary concern, as a result the final design of the enclosure was shaped by the dimensions of those equipment.

Being aware of above mentioned issues we created various design alternatives, within these alternatives we selected two and created cardboard mock-ups and then one actual prototype.

Current Design

Current design is assembled from press fit plywood parts and uses an off-the-shelf floor lamp for housing the camera and IR motion sensors.

House_n Research Group
Department of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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