Press Release
Compact Tower Air Purifier and Sterilizer by Sxdesign Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
Sxdesign acknowledged for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning products design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design category for Compact Tower Air Purifier and Sterilizer by Sxdesign, designed for Healthlead. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Compact Tower Air Purifier and Sterilizer
Compact Tower is an air purifier and sterilizer designed for small and crowded homes. The cylindrical body measures 240 millimeters in diameter and 470 millimeters in height, and is made of injection molded ABS. Computational fluid dynamics testing guided a new centrifugal fan that reduces the air duct volume while keeping the same performance, leaving space for an ultraviolet disinfection lamp. The purifier delivers 100 liters of clean air per minute. A hemisphere on the top edge holds the control panel and a translucent indicator that shows air quality from different angles.
About Sxdesign
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
Sxdesign is a winner of 11 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design Award
The A' HVAC Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good design in the fields of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to HVAC system designers, industrial designers, HVAC brands and HVAC manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include furnaces, boilers, heat pumps, air conditioners, ventilators and thermostats. The awarded hvac designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/hvac
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/139790
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139790
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139790
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/304255
Media Contact
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Compact Tower Air Purifier and Sterilizer
- Function
- Air Purifier and Sterilizer
- Category
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing, Electronics & Appliances and Architecture
- Colors
- Lavender, Silver, Gainsboro, Light Slate Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Healthlead
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sxdesign
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139790
Credits
- Team
- Fangbo Wu, Beibei Liu, Yipeng Ding, Xu Chen, Haining Jiang, Rong Zhang, Zhixue Zou and Yaogang Chen
- Image Credits
- sxdesign
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Credit to the CFD tests over 1000 times, the designers create a new centrifugal fan that can significantly reduce the air duct volume with the same performance, and help combine UV disinfection lamps compactly. Following the structure and function, the appearance presents a minimalist style and expresses the working principle of the product. A hemisphere on the top edge not only shapes the control panel, indicator and visual center, but also provides novelty through its asymmetry.
- Inspiration
- Under COVID-19, air pollution and economic pressure, people lived in developing country are not only facing the health risk, but also enduring the crowded living environment. On the other hand, the "computational fluid dynamics (CFD)" technology can help designers to optimize the air duct structure systematically. So we draw inspiration from the two aspects, hoping to design a new type of air purifier that is powerful, cheap, compact, and can fit in the people's life in developing country.
- Research
- The crowded living environment in developing countries and regions, where no surprise three generations of six people live in about 50 square meters or less. Meanwhile, air pollution and the covid-19 crisis of the past two years have always been big threat to the safety and health of residents.
- Challenge
- A cylinder with 240mm diameter has to provide 350 cubic meters fresh air per hour and contains a UV disinfection lamp. We spent several months working on how to compress the volume of the structure. Meanwhile, product appearance should balance between simplicity and novelty. All above is to face the challenge of providing a cost effective, powerful and attractive product for people struggling with pollution and virus and light up their lives.
- Realization and Technology
- White body with grey top. ABS injection molding. Transparent black acrylic interactive panel. Transparent black lampshade. UVC disinfection lamp.
- Operation and Interaction
- The hemisphere contains two functions. The top surface is designed to be control panel. Secondly, the hemispheric part below is made of transclucent material to show the air quality through the indicator. Hemispheric surface makes the indicator and information reachable from different perspectives. This machine is only 240mm in diameter and can provide 100L fresh and healthy air per minute. It is capable of circulating air 3.65 times per hour in a 40 square meters room, which makes it suitable for those people in developing regions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Jan 2021 in Beijing and finished in Nov 2021 in Shenzhen.
- Specifications
- Diameter: 240mm Height: 470mm. Uses the wavelength of 280nm violet light.
- Keywords
- Air purifier, Disinfection, Air pollution, asymmetrical design, developing region healthcare
