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Michael Oh TSP Smart Spaces
What design period do you find engaging? We love a challenge, and two design periods with two completely different aesthetics create the most challenges for us for the same reasons. We love the ornateness of Victorian architecture as seen in our recently finished Back Bay Music Room. On the other end of the spectrum, we appreciate the clean lines of modern architecture, seen in our Scandi Oceanfront home in Reykjavik. In both cases, our challenge with home technology is to avoid distracting from the architecture.
What is your dream collaboration?
While we get to live our dreams every day, working with some of the nicest luxury clients and best brands in the Boston area, one of these collaborations in particular sticks out: our Klocke Distillery project in the Upper Hudson Valley. Not only is this a passion project of ours—TSP Smart Spaces is an investor—but we get to work with renowned interior designer Ken Fulk to coordinate technology and design with every part of this luxury hospitality experience.
What are emerging trends in your industry?
With the recent changes in the Massachusetts building energy codes, it’s clear that electrification is at the heart of future homes, especially large-scale ones. We’re seeing products such as Savant Power, which help with the monitoring and coordination of grid power, solar generation, battery storage, and backup generators, as being key to this transition. A new generation of smart homes is being built today with their own microgrids. We see these solutions as essential as homes move towards a more sustainable future.
Michael has degrees from MIT in aerospace engineering and electrical engineering and lives in London with his wife, twin daughters, and dog. He is currently TSP’s lead on projects with the Boston Celtics and Kayak.com, BGI’s 10 World Trade in the Seaport, and multiple large residential projects in the Back Bay, the Boston suburbs, and the Yellowstone Club in Montana.