Fly Modular System by Linda Martins is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2022
Fly Modular System
Client: Studio Linda Martins
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Fly Modular System
Fly is a modular furniture system designed for flexible living spaces. The system is composed of two structures of different heights, with drilled channels, bars, shelves and butterfly-shaped screws that allow many layout configurations. Fly is made of brass, steel and reused pressed wood. Assembly is simple, because the bars are fixed into the drilled channels with the butterfly screws to support the shelves. The system can be assembled and disassembled without professional help. Fly can be used in the office, the bedroom and the kitchen.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Fly Modular System is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Fly Modular System is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Fly Modular System splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Fly is a modular and hybrid system designed during the quarantine. It represents the need to change the house, because in this pandemic time, we have learned that the house needs to adapt to us, and not the other way around. The system is composed of two structures in different heights, with drilled channels, bars, shelves and butterfly screws to assemble many layout configurations. To use from the office to the bedroom, including the kitchen.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Structure 1 1100mm x 400mm x 2347mm
structure 2 1100mm x 400mm x 850mm - Tags
- hybrid, modular, quarantine, minimalist, function, sustaintability, freedom, simplicity, elegance
- Production Technology
- It is made of brass, steel, and reused pressed wood. It has different heights and many configurations to assemble the layout.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to create a system that really worked without the help of a professional to assemble, and thus, uniting form and function.
- Research
- The research was about technology and creative solutions for hybrid furniture, which people could change shape according to their needs.
- Inspiration
- We developed the Fly modular system, when coronavirus restrictions were first imposed in Brazil, inspired by the need to adapt our home environment to our changing lives. It features a minimalist design, suitable for different environments and uses—it is the metamorphosis of the home. The butterfly-shaped screws add a beautiful touch and symbolize freedom, reminding us to use our imagination to explore our possibilities.
- Project Duration
- The project started in july 2020 in Belo Horizonte, Brasil and finished in August 2021 in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
- Operation Flow
- It is simple to use. Just need to fix the bars with the butterfly screw into the channels drilled from the frame to support the shelves. It can be assemble and disassemble by yourself.
- Team Members
- Linda Martins
- Image Credits
- Rodrigo Ortega
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