adventure in comfort

安楽の冒険

adventure in comfort

私たちは毎日決まって寝室のベッドで睡眠をとる．睡眠の価値は，翌日に質の良い生活をするための疲労回復にあった．睡眠をとるためのベッドは，物理的重さと方角のような文化的概念から限られた場所に固定され，気軽に移動することはできず，睡眠の価値や手段は画一化していた．

しかし睡眠の質や価値はそれだけなのか？睡眠の楽しみ方に多様性を持たせることはできないか？

ここで衣食住の一つである食事について考えてみる．食事は料理の美味しさや栄養意外に一緒に食事をする人やレストランの雰囲気，天気など，様々な条件によって個々の食事が多様性を持ち特別な経験となる．このような楽しみ方を睡眠に持たせるために，一定の寝室とベッドから離れ，猫に毎晩の寝場所を決めてもらう「安楽の冒険」を提案する．仲良しの友達と色んなレストランへ食事に行く感覚で，一緒に生活している猫が案内してくれる場所で睡眠をとるプロジェクトである．

伴侶動物の中でも，猫は寝床が毎日変化し，予測不可能で，人は普段気付かった空間に連れていくため，毎日の睡眠がダイナミックに変化し，記憶に残る特別な体験になりうる．愛着のある他者についていく安楽の冒険は，自然に猫との触れ合いが増え，心も癒される睡眠となる．猫においても，寝転びながら落ち着いた触れ合いをする事を好むものが多く，伴侶動物と人のコミュニケーションが豊になる．

「安楽の冒険」は，疲労回復にフォーカスされてきた睡眠の価値にワクワク感と幸福感を与え，睡眠を「とるもの」ではなく「楽しむもの」へ変える．24日間の体験では，バイタル数値では猫との睡眠とベッドでの睡眠に大きな差は見られず，癒しやワクワク感が増える結果となった．より多くの人がこの生活を気軽に体験できるように，形が環境に適して変化するベッドのプロトタイプを制作した．階段や散らかっている床，テーブルの下など，家中のあらゆる空間に体を預けることができる．

We sleep in our bedroom beds every day. The value of sleep is to recover from fatigue so that we could have a good quality of life the next day. Beds for sleeping were fixed in a limited place because of their physical weight and cultural concepts such as direction, and could not be easily moved.

However, is there a single quality and value of sleep? Is it possible to add diversity to the way we enjoy sleep?

Let's think about food. In addition to the taste and nutrition of the food, each meal is a special experience with diversity depending on the people you are eating with, the atmosphere of the restaurant, the weather, and many other factors. In order to bring this kind of enjoyment to sleep, we propose an "adventure in comfort" in which the cat decides where to sleep each night, away from the fixed bedroom and bed. This project is similar to going out to eat with a good friend at a restaurant, where the cat guides you to sleep.

Among companion animals, cats are unpredictable and change their sleeping place every day, and discover spaces where people are not usually aware of. The comfortable adventure of following an affectionate other species naturally leads to more interaction with the cat and a healing sleep. Many cats also prefer to lie down and have calm contact with each other, this approach enriches communication between companion animals and people.

The comfortable adventure adds a sense of excitement and happiness to the value of sleep, which has been focused on recovery from fatigue, and transforms sleep into something to be enjoyed rather than taken. In the 24-day experience, there was no significant difference in vital values between sleeping with a cat and sleeping in a bed, resulting in an increase in mental healing and excitement. In order to make it easier for more people to experience this life, we created a prototype of a bed whose shape changes to suit the environment. It can be placed in any space in the house, such as a messy floor, under a table, or even stairs.

空気で膨らますパウチ構造と空気圧縮で固くなるジャミング構造を重ね合わせた2重構造のフレキシブルベッドのプロトタイプを制作した．パウチ側は空気を入れる事で柔らかく身体を受け止める．ジャミング側は空気を抜く事で硬くなり，凸凹のある空間にしっかり固定できる．空気は互いの層を行き来できるように設計し，使わない時は全体が柔らかく巻いて収納可能，使う時はジャミング側からパウチ側に空気を移動させる．今回は1/13スケールで，実際に寝床になった場所の簡易的な模型とプロトタイプを制作した．

寝床模型(階段、散らかった床、テーブル)：木材
ベッドプロトタイプ：ポリプロピレン袋，ナイロンフィルム，米，シリンダー
サイズ：77mm×150mm

We have created a prototype of a double-layered inflatable bed that has a pouch structure that inflates with air and a jamming structure that becomes hard when air is compressed. The pouch side softly receives the body when inflated. The jamming side becomes hard when the air is removed, and can be firmly fixed in an uneven space. The air is designed to move back and forth between the two layers, so that when not in use, the whole thing can be rolled up softly for storage. In this project, we made a simple model of the actual sleeping area and a prototype in 1/13 scale.

Sleeping area model (stairs, messy floor, table): wood
Bed prototype: polypropylene bag, nylon film, rice, cylinder
Size: 77mm x 150mm

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