Amoeba Wall: The Future of Dynamic Workspace Design

Revolutionizing Workspace Design with Honghao Deng's Amoeba Wall

Picture a workspace that can transform itself based on your needs. A conference room that can be reconfigured into several small team rooms or individual offices, or merge into medium-sized discussion spaces with ease. This is the vision behind the Amoeba Wall, a design concept by Honghao Deng and his team. Drawing inspiration from the amoeba, a tiny creature known for its ability to change shape, the Amoeba Wall represents a new era of hyper-transformable workspaces.

The uniqueness of the Amoeba Wall lies in its ability to autonomously shape the room around us in response to our needs. It can create small individual offices, open teamwork spaces, and private meeting rooms within a few seconds. This tangible interface allows users to achieve an economical and efficient configurable workspace playfully. The walls' movements are enabled by a system of omni-wheels, and control is through a computer program which simulates movements and sends commands via Wi-Fi using the MQTT protocol.

The Amoeba Wall's design is a response to the rapid population explosion affecting metropolitan cities worldwide. As high-density cities become the norm, there is a growing need for dynamically reconfigurable workspaces that can accommodate a wide range of activities in a small area. The Amoeba Wall is a solution to this challenge, offering a creative workspace on demand for a fraction of the price and space traditionally required.

Despite the technical challenges of maximizing control precision using a set of Omni-wheels platforms on different floor conditions, the team managed to overcome it by designing an auto-correction algorithm based on feedback from motor encoders and rotation sensors on the nodes. The result is a wall system that not only transforms on command but also dances autonomously to music, adding a playful element to the workspace.

The Amoeba Wall's innovative design has not gone unnoticed. It was awarded the Golden A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award in 2017, a prestigious accolade granted to marvelous, outstanding, and trendsetting creations that reflect the designer's prodigy and wisdom. These are venerated products and bright ideas that advance art, science, design, and technology, embodying extraordinary excellence and significantly impacting the world with their desirable characteristics.

As the project continues to develop, with plans to enhance the Amoeba Wall system with the Amoeba Table system, it's clear that Honghao Deng and his team are pushing the boundaries of workspace design. The Amoeba Wall is more than just a design concept; it's a glimpse into the future of workspaces, where flexibility, adaptability, and dynamism are the norm.