Vos Solutions™ have launched ‘a blueprint for future living’ named The Vos Pad™.

The Vos Pad™ is the world's first apartment solely lit by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). 

Vos Solutions™ have integrated the latest technologies within a design framework to create a truly 21st century living space.

The result is a world first.

  • The Vos Pad is lit by Luxeon® LEDs, all of which are fully dimmable with complete chromatic control.

  • The ambience of The Vos Pad is controlled by the Lutron® custom-built computerised system that operates the lighting and other features. The level and colour of the lights in different areas can be changed instantly. The blinds are remote-controlled.
  • The Vos Pad features an Opus integrated home entertainment system with Sony plasma TV. LCD TV screens are embedded into the kitchen and bathroom walls.
  • The bathroom of The Vos Pad features a spectacular LED illuminated spa bath, and a colour changing side-lit shower screen by Litelogic.
  • The Vos Pad contains a stainless steel fitted kitchen with integrated appliances, featuring side lit colour changing Litelogic worktops, and fixtures from Carron Phoenix.
  • The Vos Pad features a range of Litelogic LED simulated candles, specially commissioned LED sculpture from internationally renowned artist Chris Levine.
  • The Vos Pad is the first property in the world to feature MK Electric’s new high-end range of “screw-free” sockets and switches
  • The Vos Pad is automatically cleaned by The Trilobite®, the world's first automatic vacuum cleaner from Electrolux.
  • The Vos Pad has limestone flooring throughout, with all heating under floor.
  • The Vos Pad features the Roland KR-17 programmable digital grand piano.

 

Blueprint for future living

This is a new way at looking at living spaces: combining intelligent design with the latest technologies to create flexible interior solutions.


Increased demand for live/work space, high property prices and our increasingly sophisticated lifestyles have lead to new ways of thinking:


Flexible living

By creating an apartment with clean lines and clever design features, it is now possible to live, work and entertain with style, but in a much smaller space than before.

The same plasma screen that is used to watch DVD’s, can also be used to play games, work or give presentations. The sleeping space is hidden behind a sleek screen, and the WC is split from the main bathroom to form a guest cloakroom. Storage is discreet and adaptable.


Fashionable living

The Vos Pad’s approach to interior ambience reflects today’s fast changing fashions in colours, fixtures and furnishings.
Colours and moods may be changed by use of intelligent lighting systems and design features, rather than by repainting or papering walls, or replacing tiles and floor coverings.

Working in this way saves resources, energy and money.

Smart living

Integrated entertainment systems and smart features allow greater control than ever over the home environment. Lighting levels and colours, heating, sound and video are all centrally controlled and can be instantly set to pre-selected options. Even the cleaning is automated.

Vos Solutions have demonstrated that selectively integrating new technologies makes commercial sense and can substantially raise the value of a property.

Unlike other ‘homes of the future’, The Vos Pad is a practical demonstration of what can be affordably done now.

Bright living

The Vos Pad’s main lighting system incorporates LED light units provided by British company ACDC Lighting . These products have been developed in conjunction with some of the world’s top lighting designers, including Vos Solutions.
In The Vos Pad, Vos Solutions,ACDC Lighting and Lutron® and have come together to create the world's first fully dimmable and chromatically controlled RGB lighting system.

The ambience of The Vos Pad is controlled by the Lutron custom-built computerised system that operates the LED lighting and other features.

The Lutron Grafik Intergrale was the obvious choice for The Vos Pad, combining a sleek, unobtrusive and modern design with great functionality and flexibility.

With the Lutron system, the level and colour of the lights in different areas can be changed instantly, to pre-selected scenes or to an infinite number of personally customised configurations.

These can be still sets or flow into each other at a programmable rate - from the gently subliminal to fast radical change. The choice is with the controller like never before.

This world first, and its commercial launch, have been made possible only through this inspired collaboration, and the innovative and research-led approach of Vos Solutions.The Vos Pad demonstrates:
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  • A new approach to living, working, entertainment and relaxation
  • A stunning aesthetic and unique ambience created by the integration of technology and cutting edge design
  • Décor and mood that can be dramatically altered or gently mixed by microprocessor controlled lighting systems.`
  • The potential of LED lighting and smart controls in a wide range of interior design applications.
  • Sustainable design though:
    • energy efficiency and management.
    • increased lifespan of both the refurbishment and the technologies within it.
    • environment ‘alteration’ by lighting change rather than expensive wall and floor treatments.
  • Smart and automated technologies are becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, and can radically improvemodern lifestyles.


The demand for technologies such as LED lighting and home automation systems has been demonstrated in the luxury home, hotel and entertainment industries.


Product evolution, improved economies of scale and the availability of skilled integrators are driving the rapid expansion in the wider home, leisure and office markets.


Background

The Vos Pad is the brainchild of the designer Marcel Jean Vos.

Marcel has a wide range of creative experience, from interiors retail through to leading edge marine and interior design projects.
Through his design consultancy, Vos Solutions™, Marcel has created the first in a series of interior environments that integrate the latest technologies and products within a design framework.

The Vos Pad is a blueprint for future living, and as such could equally be applied to working, living or entertaining spaces.
Vos Solutions are building a long-term platform to develop ideas and applications in cooperation with leading manufacturers and companies.

LED Benefits

LED's have been used for over 40 years in indicators, displays and as light sources for instrumentation and engineering applications.


Recent technological developments and economies of scale have meant that LED's are now brighter, cheaper and easier to use than ever before, and are now being used in place of more conventional light sources.


A good quality white light LED produces two to three times more light than an equivalent wattage low energy light bulb, and ten times more light than the common incandescent light bulb.


LED lights have an exceptionally long life - 50-100,000 hours. 1000% longer than low energy light bulb and 10 000% longer than the common incandescent light bulb.

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