Tubedex Bus Station by Industrial Design College is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeStreet Furniture· 2025
Tubedex Bus Station
Client: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Street Furniture Category
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About Tubedex Bus Station
Tubedex is a bus stop designed for post-industrial cities. The form is inspired by industrial pipes and is expressed through deconstructed circular tube elements. Brushed stainless steel is the main material, joined by cast connectors and screws. Solar panels above the roof supply energy, while LED lights behind frosted glass illuminate the waiting area. An interactive screen in bold red shows real-time information such as time, weather and the expected bus load rate. The aim is to make bus service information clearer and easier to read.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Tubedex Bus Station 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. Tubedex Bus Station 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. Tubedex Bus Station splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Tubedex, a new form of bus station, designed for post-industrial cities. Its uniqueness lies in the deconstructed expression of industrial circular tube elements in its appearance, trying to capture the extension and elegance of its shape semantics. The innovative eye-catching and beautiful interactive interface brings more transparent bus operation information to the public and gives more intuitive visual expression of information. Bring more innovative attempts to urban public facilities.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Main : Width 6150mm x Depth 2616mm x Height 3075mm
Seat : Width 1150mm x Depth 500mm x Height 450mm
Bus Stop Plat 01 :Width 2634mm x Depth 250mm x Height 2325mm
Bus Stop Plat 02 :Width 1512mm x Depth 80mm x Height 2715mm
Bus Stop Plat 03 :Width 543mm x Depth 50mm x Height 2325mm
Bus Stop Plat 04 :Width 543mm x Depth 50mm x Height 2325mm - Tags
- Bus Station, Interaction, Smart City, Modular, Quantitative
- Production Technology
- We chose brushed stainless steel as the main material of Tubedex, which is strong and reliable, but also brings the unique texture of the metal reflected from different angles. Strong solar panels above the ceiling provide energy for the products, while a combination of luminous leds and frosted glass provide light for the citizens below. The whole product is divided into universal body parts and cast connectors and combined with screws to find a balance between economy and aesthetics.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge of our design is that we cannot find a reasonable way in it’s appearance which is satisfying in function at the beginning. After a certain number of sketching and discussing of our project, we finally find the proper selection which achieves the desired effect.
- Research
- As the concept of smart cities continues to gain popularity, the Internet of Things has changed People's Daily lives. At present, major cities are actively promoting the wisdom of public transport systems, and improving the limitations of existing public transport systems has been developing towards universality. The existing bus service system has several problems waiting to be solved, such as rigid information transmission, opacity, and one-way interaction. The design team decided to re-explore the interactive value of bus stations in public space from the perspective of informatization, wisdom and art. That's the beginning of Tubedex.
- Inspiration
- The shape of Tubedex is inspired by the industrial pipes that can be seen everywhere in post-industrial cities. Inspired by the epitome of this urban cultural symbol, we try to preserve the traces and memories of industrial city clusters and try to eliminate the bad stereotypes inherent in traditional industrial cities. The main color of the interactive interface is bold red, ensuring recognition while conforming to the color inspiration of bravery, aggressiveness and efficiency.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2025 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in March 2025 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
- Operation Flow
- Tubedex's interactive interface is divided into standard screen and 16:9 screen. The standard provides real-time data such as time, weather and full load rate. According to the passenger density data of each vehicle and passenger data of each platform, the data is counted and sorted under the strategy of smart city, and the expected arrival full load rate is finally calculated for visual presentation. The 16:9 screen combines the first two. Information classification is sorted according to the importance of the user journey, achieving a complete logic from user needs to information transfer to entity interaction.
- Team Members
- Designer: Du Heli
Designer: Shen Linchuan
Designer: Li Yuankai
Designer: Xue Bomu
Designer: Wang Xi - Image Credits
- Image #1: Designer Du Heli, Li Yuankai, Shen Linchuan, Xue Bomu, Wang Xi 2025
Image #2: Designer Du Heli, Li Yuankai, Shen Linchuan, Xue Bomu, Wang Xi 2025
Image #3: Designer Du Heli, Li Yuankai, Shen Linchuan, Xue Bomu, Wang Xi 2025
Image #4: Designer Du Heli, Li Yuankai, Shen Linchuan, Xue Bomu, Wang Xi 2025
Image #5: Designer Du Heli, Li Yuankai, Shen Linchuan, Xue Bomu, Wang Xi 2025
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