Mini Off Children Furniture by Miguel Ángel Sánchez and Gloria Lozano is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2017
Mini Off Children Furniture
by Miguel Ángel Sánchez and Gloria Lozano
Client: Off Acustic
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Mini Off Children Furniture
Mini Off is a children furniture line designed for nursery schools. Mini Off is made of Lanisor, a light acoustic material with a high level of sound absorption. Noise enters the surface and spreads inside the material, where friction between the fibres turns the kinetic energy into heat. This effect reduces the noise level in the room. The low weight allows children to lift the furniture and place it where they want. The soft surface also makes the furniture safer for children in case of falls or knocks.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Mini Off Children Furniture 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. Mini Off Children Furniture 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. Mini Off Children Furniture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Pursue the acoustic comfort in those places where it is most necessary and in which it is an increasingly forgotten factor.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Acoustics are children's spaces, as well as a design adapted to the needs of the little ones.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
It just came up. After a long time working with the theme of acoustics and with products that incorporated this characteristic, one day came the idea of taking this concept to more unusual spaces but equally full of noise and noise: nurseries.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- It is designed with an acoustic material which is light and more comfortable. These make it perfect for children use. It is thought to be used in a nursery school and as it is light, children can place it where they want without any difficult. Its main purpose is the acoustic feature because it would minimize the environment noise.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Its key property is the acoustic feature. Noise penetrates the LANISOR surface and diffuses in the material. As a result of the friction on the fibre surfaces, the kinetic energy of the noise is dissipated as heat energy. The highly-compressed bres support this effect much more than conventional materials. The product dimensions are 2500mm x 1250mm.
- Tags
- furniture, children, acoustic, nursery school, acoustic furniture
- Production Technology
- It is made of the material LANISOR and it is computer controlled machine centers.
- Research
- Our experience in this field of acoustic projects has showed us that there are a great lack of acoustic in the field of lining and furniture. This is what lead us to look for solutions in public environments.
- Inspiration
- After several years working with acoustic materials we discovered this new material, Lanisor, which has absorption features and it is also a material easy to work with. Following acoustic office projects we decided to add the acoustic feature to our furniture. What inspired us to use acoustic was the noise inside a nursery school as well as its softness which makes it safer for children in case the get hit by it.
- Project Duration
- This project started in January 2017 and is currently in a prototype phase.
- Operation Flow
- It is children furniture made of acoustic material which make it perfect to be used in nursery schools because this material is not only going to minimize the noise in the room but it is also light and soft which contributes to the children security and safeness.
- Team Members
- Miguel Ángel Sánchez Martín
Gloria Lozano Jiménez
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