Sketch Regal by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Sketch Regal by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Silber in Möbeldesign Competition Category.

SilberMöbel· 2023

Sketch Regal

by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Freestyle Outdoor Living Co. Ltd

A' Design Award in Silber Winner in Möbel Category

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The Design

About Sketch Regal

Das Sketch-Regal ist ein geordnetes Regal im Chaos. Hergestellt mittels digitaler Designmethoden. Die Designinspiration des Regals ist das Stahlskelett eines im Bau befindlichen Gebäudes auf der Baustelle. Der Designer kombinierte Linien, um mithilfe von Algorithmen Stauraum zu schaffen. Linien können methodisch im Chaos konstituiert werden. Aus der Ferne betrachtet erscheint es als Liniengewirr, ist aber tatsächlich ein Regal. Diese besonderen Regale bieten nicht nur Antworten auf Ungewissheiten, sondern auch die Schönheit moderner Technologie und Kunst.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Silber

Sketch Regal ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber, einer enorm prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, großartige und beeindruckende Spitzendesigns. Silber-Gewinner sind ungemein brillante und äußerst kreative Werke, die die herausragende Expertise, das Talent und den Scharfsinn ihrer Designer veranschaulichen. Von Sketch Regal wird erwartet, dass es ein wunderbares Vorzeigewerk ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und zutiefst innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Silber prämierte Design ist eine höchst bemerkenswerte, bewunderte Erfindung, die den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Sketch Regal ist eine vielbeneidete Schöpfung, die Wünsche weckt, positive Gefühle vermittelt und Staunen und Verwunderung entfacht.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.
Dimensions & Packaging: 812 mm * 424 mm * 1630 mm
Tags: shelf, line, office, commercial furniture, art furniture, digital design
Production Technology: Designer discuss the application of digital design method to give the product a new form of research. First, we build a framework of product form we want, and then use grasshopper software to generate some shapes randomly. Designers adjust these forms according to ergonomics, aesthetics, etc., and choose the style suitable for industrial mass production technology, and finally present a work.
Random forms are difficult to manufacture because they cannot be made directly after traditional engineering drawings. So we decided to break the whole into pieces of metal, and then connect the pieces.
Design Challenge: Social perspective. It can challenge the public's understanding of traditional shelves.
Technology implementation. During the design process, the computer will produce a lot of random structures, designers need to balance the relationship between these random forms and product forms. In addition, designers should balance these random forms with the realization of industrial mass production.
Research: Digital design, a dynamic design style, pursuing uncertainties, can create a huge amount of variate by logical algorithm, as well as interact with human. Therefore, these random states and results of a new sense of openness bring people in certain environment more space of imagination, which we believe will change our way of thinking someday.
Inspiration: The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. They are complex and orderly, order within chaos.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2020 in Hangzhou
Operation Flow: The shelf can hold things, crisscross lines can also hang things, and the top support leg can be exposed to hang clothes.
Team Members: Xuelian Li
Shichao Wang
Hongwang Zhu
Lihong Xin