A sealed, climate-controlled immersive rest capsule — black anodised aluminium and smoked acrylic, designed and, once finalized, manufactured in Amman by Nplay. A black monolith that opens: silent, sealed and cool inside.
From ten metres, SAKINA Pod reads as a solid, dark, quietly mysterious object — no visible hardware, no handle, no hinge, no vent grille, no branding beyond a single etched wordmark. It is a shape, not a machine. It reveals itself in three moves, and the whole design exists to make those three moves feel expensive.
A continuous line of light traces the full outline of the door and pulses slowly — six cycles a minute, the pace of a resting breath. Visible from the end of a corridor.
A single curved acrylic panel slides on a linear rail over two and a half seconds, with a soft-close at each end. No handle to pull, no hinge to swing, no sound.
Smoked acrylic reads as opaque black when the interior is dark, and turns into a glowing lantern when the interior lighting comes up — the same panel is both a wall and a window.
Two blacks, one warm grey, two accents and a warm white. Nothing else — the restraint is deliberate, and it is what makes the object read as considered rather than assembled.
#000000 · matteBlack anodised aluminium composite, fine bead-blasted matte finish. All exterior panels.#1A1A1APlinth, crown recess, shadow gaps#8E8B86Ribbed PET acoustic felt lining. Warm, not black — a black interior reads as a coffin.#00EDFFLight channel at rest, ready state, wordmark backlight#EC008COccupied state, purge indication, alert#FFF4E6 · 2700KInterior ceiling plenum during a session| SURFACE | SPECIFICATION |
|---|---|
| Exterior shell | Black anodised aluminium composite, fine bead-blasted matte finish, with a 2mm diamond-turned bright chamfer on every edge — the only ornament on the exterior. |
| Door & front band | 10mm cast acrylic (PMMA), smoke tint at 15% visible light transmission, flame-polished edges left exposed so they carry the internal light. |
| Wordmark | SAKINA in Poppins, laser-etched into the rear face of the acrylic and edge-lit, so it appears to float inside the panel. Arabic سكينة beneath at 60% of the cap height. |
| Interior lining | Warm mid-grey PET acoustic felt, fine vertical rib, 25mm, Class B fire rating. |
| Seat | Black medical-grade polyurethane, wide horizontal channel quilting, no visible stitching in contact areas, no fabric anywhere. |
SAKINA Pod has one continuous light system with five states, and the states are the interface. A user should never need to be told what the Pod is doing.
Electric blue, breathing at 6 cycles per minute. Touch the line to open.
A blue sweep that travels with the door
Magenta, steady, no breathing. Occupied — readable at twenty metres.
White, slow sweep. The 60-second air flush between users.
Blue double pulse every 4 seconds. Nothing alarming, nothing red.
Selected figures from the working design brief. Dimensions and component selections are indicative until the design is frozen with the fabricator.
| MEASURE | VALUE |
|---|---|
| External envelope | 1,600 W × 1,750 D × 2,150 H mm |
| Internal clear volume | 1,380 × 1,480 mm, seated headroom 1,880 mm, approximately 2.6 m³ |
| Door opening | 700mm clear width, full height, powered sliding panel |
| Mass | Approximately 340 kg assembled |
| Ventilation rate | Approximately 39 m³/h — 15 air changes per hour, a full change of the internal volume every four minutes |
| Filtration | H13 HEPA plus activated carbon, tool-free cartridge change, 12-month service life |
| Acoustic target | Below 28 dBA at the headrest, door closed, system at nominal speed |
| Climate setpoint | Occupant-selectable 18–26°C, defaulting to 22°C |
| Session cap | Hard 15-minute limit — lights rise and the door releases automatically at the end |
| Power | Single 16A supply — approximately 600W typical, 1,400W peak on cooling pull-down |
| Occupant range | 5th–95th percentile adult, seated use only, maximum 130 kg |
A lockable door has to satisfy both a corporate buyer who wants privacy and a safety officer whose occupant is wearing a head-mounted display and cannot see the room. Four provisions do it.
The latch is held by power. Loss of mains, loss of control, fire-alarm interface or emergency stop releases it instantly. A locked Pod cannot exist without electricity.
A single unpowered lever inside the door frame opens the door by hand from within, regardless of the state of every electronic system.
A recessed key or badge override on the exterior releases the latch and drives the door open, available to any authorised staff member at any time, with no software involved.
The acrylic is tinted, not opaque. With the interior lit — which it always is when occupied — a person outside can see that someone is inside and can see them move.
A short list of things the design deliberately does not do — because each one, if it crept in, would turn the Pod into an appliance instead of a refuge.
SAKINA Pod is the flagship, sealed configuration. Three related configurations share the same design language for different settings and budgets.
| MODEL | CONFIGURATION | WHERE IT GOES |
|---|---|---|
| SAKINA Pod | Sealed, powered sliding acrylic door, lock, HEPA ventilation, active cooling | Corporate, hospitality, airports, private clinics, retail flagship |
| SAKINA Pod Clinical | Same shell, lock disabled by default, wider aperture, clinical documentation pack | Hospitals and healthcare groups |
| SAKINA Pod Open | Open C-shell with acoustic curtain, passive ventilation, no door — this is the CARE-VR unit | Research deployments and cost-sensitive wards |
| SAKINA Cart | Mobile bedside cart, headset and hygiene kit only | Bedside and land-and-expand |
SAKINA Pod is a sealed, single-person, climate-controlled capsule designed by Nplay to give people a short, private space to rest and reset using immersive VR content — with a powered sliding door, active air filtration and a five-state light system that shows its status at a glance.
Not yet. SAKINA Pod is in design development in Amman — dimensions and component selections are indicative until the design is frozen with the fabricator. We're looking for partners to help take it from concept to production.
SAKINA Pod is designed, in part, as the physical hardware that could house Nplay's calming VR concept for hospital patients — a sealed, quiet space built around the same idea that immersive content can meaningfully ease pain and anxiety during medical procedures.
Locking is optional, and even when enabled it is designed with four independent safety provisions: the latch is fail-safe and releases on any loss of power, there is an unpowered mechanical release lever inside the door, staff have an exterior override at all times, and the tinted (not opaque) acrylic means an occupant is always visible from outside.
SAKINA Pod is designed in Amman, Jordan by Nplay for Interactive Solutions, and will be manufactured there once the design is finalized with a fabricator.
We're looking for hospitality, corporate wellness, aviation and healthcare partners to help take SAKINA Pod from concept to production.