Trends are mostly, if not always- a result of requirement, and so is the current demand for transformable spaces! Be it a home or a working space, people are now disposed to find and adopt ways to maximise use of their spaces. With the soaring housing prices, transformable spaces have gained a new admiration amongst masses in recent years. It gives a more flexible space to live with simple and economic solutions.

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The traditional ways of segregating spaces by their uses has now become ancient and now the focus is extreme reusability, by integrating various activities at a same place to maximum extent possible. This could simply be understood in a home when one eliminates redundant or excess spaces by integrating dining room and bedroom or combining kitchen and living room.  By using pullout dining table, a small kitchen space can become cozy dining area.  Such multipurpose spaces encourage users to maximise utility of objects within it, which leads to creative use of things and spaces available. 

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User interaction with space and its surrounding increases when they have transformable spaces around, as the user has more choices that one can make. In working environment, this creates a sense of togetherness and ownership among employees.
Transformable spaces can be refreshingly handy and economical with the support of right technology. Folding beds turning into sofas and cabinets; planning a room such that it can function as a workspace, guest room or a living room; are just a few examples how you can allow small spaces to be utilised in several ways, to adapt the ever-mutating needs of modern living. 

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FIG 1 courtesy westelmworkspace.com
FIG 2 courtesy Switch-Yuko-Shibata-Office-by-Yuko-Shibata-1
FIG 3 courtesy Transformer-Apartment-by-Vlad-Mishin-1