Press Release
Gianluca Sada Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Sada Bike Hubless Foldable Bike in Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Gianluca Sada for vehicle, mobility and transportation design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sada Bike Hubless Foldable Bike by Gianluca Sada, designed for Adler Group, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Sada Bike Hubless Foldable Bike
Sada Bike is a hubless folding bicycle with 26 inch wheels. The large wheels support a comfortable riding posture similar to that of a standard bicycle. Each wheel is held at three points: the front points are set in the fender structure, while the rear points sit inside the rim. A chain transmits motion to a lower wheel, which transfers torque to the rear rim. The frame turns around a single central fulcrum, so the whole structure closes with one movement into a shape close to the size of an umbrella. The folded bicycle can be carried on the shoulder or moved as a trolley.
About Gianluca Sada
He gained a strong experience in the field of design and planning first for the studies undertaken in Engineering, then, working for several years in the automotive and interior design sector, which led him to create a start-up starting from the patent of a very particular bicycle ray-free and foldable. The projects he is in charge of gave him given the opportunity to work in the design world with an Engineer groundwork.
Award Record
With this recognition, Gianluca Sada is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design Award
The A' Vehicle Design Award is an international vehicle design competition recognizing good vehicle designs by best vehicle designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to vehicle designers, mobility solution providers, transportation design studios and automotive engineers from all countries. Entries typically include cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses and trains. Awarded vehicle designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/vehicle
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/100285
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100285
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100285
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/272746
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVeemZ0_e4&feature=emb_titl
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sada Bike Hubless Foldable Bike
- Function
- Hubless Foldable Bike
- Category
- Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive
- Colors
- Light Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Gainsboro and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Adler Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gianluca Sada
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100285
Credits
- Team
- Ing. Gianluca Sada and Luca Scudieri
- Image Credits
- Image Frozen Light studio
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The SadaBike have 5 strategic points: 1) Hubless bike. This means: Innovative Design and very good ergonomics and comfort. 2) Hubless and foldable bike: It has a special fulcrum in the center, all the frame folds, into a compact shape, similar to an umbrella. 3) Foldable with a single movement. 4) Portable on Shoulder: The small size has the advantage of carrying the bike on the shoulder. 5) Portable as a Trolley: The backpack presents a central hinge that allows the expansion in the trolley mode.
- Inspiration
- Demanding mobility-related service has its consequences on society: street congestion of metropolitan hubs is the everyday challenge commuters have to face and it is a source and stress and delays. «You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.» R.Buckminster Fuller Promoting and enabling virtuous behaviors for smart mobility, intermodality, sustainability for the environment are the values driving Sada Bike
- Research
- The result of the project is a 26 inch foldable bicycle with a minimum size when folded (the frame dimension is barely the size of an umbrella) for hand-transport. Sada Bike, despite the sizes of its wheels and the total absence of hubs and spokes, when folded, is the lightest and least cumbersome foldable bike on the market as it can be transported in an elegant trolley. Other foldable bikes have tiny wheels and frame enhancing manageability at the expense of stability and safety.
- Challenge
- The bicycle without spokes was a challenge between innovation and design. The search for the perfect circle and the study of the laws of physics, yet the commitment, perseverance, with a certain amount of obstacles and falls have made it possible to operate the circle without rays, without constraint to the hub .. and again ... the search of technical and industrial partner, led me to finalize an essential design with extreme innovation.
- Realization and Technology
- The parts of this bike are in aluminum alloy (7075 Ergal) made by CNC process. The next prototype and the production will be made in Ergal and carbon fiber.
- Operation and Interaction
- The frame is composed mainly of 4 parts similar to a scissor front and a rear. Each wheel is supported in 3 points: the front ones are inserted in the fender structure, while the rear ones are allocated inside the rim. The bending system has a central fulcrum around which the front and rear parts of the structure and allows it to close the whole frame in a very compact way. The Sada Bike has a change in the lower wheel that transmits the motion, which allows multiplying the speed of 3 times. The chain then transmits the motion to the lower wheel that transfers torque to the rear rim.
- Project Duration and Location
- The main exhibitions are: SMAU Torino (Torino Italy 05/2014); Napoli Bike Festival (Napoli Italy 09/2014); Forum del Design (Milano Italy 10/2014); TEDx Bologna (Bologna Italy 10/2014); Bike to the future: Design Museum Gent (Belgium 10/2016), Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem Israel 05/2017), Universum Bremen (Germany 04/2018), Citta della Scienza (Napoli Italy 4/2019), Science and Technology Museum (Ottawa Canada 04/2020), Franklin Institute (Philadelphia USA 04/2021).
- Specifications
- Sada Bike measurements: In «open version» Sada Bike is like a «normal» 26 inch bike: 1640mm; 980mm; 530mm The dimension of only the frame, is like an umbrella and included rims, overall measurements are: 700mm; 600mm; 280mm
- Keywords
- Hubless, Foldable, Trolley, Umbrella Bike
