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Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang

Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Mea Hoʻomahana, Ea a me Hoʻoluʻolu Ea Competition Category.


KalaEa Maʻalahi· 2021

Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea

by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang

Client: Healthlead

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Ea Maʻalahi Category

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The Design

About Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea

Book Text: ʻO Compact he mīkini hoʻomaʻemaʻe ea i hoʻolālā ʻia no nā keʻena liʻiliʻi o loko. Hāʻawi ka mīkini i ka ea maʻemaʻe ma ka pae o 200 mika kupika i ka hola i loko o kahi puʻunaue liʻiliʻi, no laila kūpono ka mīkini hoʻomaʻemaʻe no nā wahi noho palena ʻole. Hoʻohui kekahi ala ea hou i nā kākoʻo kānana, kekahi mau ʻāpana o waho a me ke ala i loko o nā ʻāpana hoʻokahi, e waiho ana i ʻelima wale nō ʻāpana nui. Ke hoʻemi nei ka helu ʻāpana i emi ai ka paʻakikī o ka hana a me ke kumukūʻai, e hoʻokūpono ai i ka ea maʻemaʻe o loko. Paʻa kekahi pio ma ke kikowaena o luna i kahi mea hoʻokipa e hana pū me nā mea mamao infrared he nui. Hana ʻia ke kino me ka ABS i hoʻoheheʻe a hoʻokomo ʻia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Compact Primary Function: Mīkini Hoʻomaʻemaʻe Ea e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The Compact Air Purifier can blend in multitype of small scale interiors to fit target customer's living condition credit to its 200m3/h CADR into a small volume. Curves at top center reveals a receiver matched with multitype of infrared remote controller, creating an overall visual center. Corner curves and clean design illuminates its elegant impression. It merges various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the air tunnel parts into one. Then, the product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the cost.
Dimensions & Packaging
White body with grey top. Dimensions: 308mm x 153mm x 461mm
Tags
air purifier, purifier, compact, cost, curve
Production Technology
White body with grey top. ABS injection molding.
Design Challenge
The challenge comes from design constraints imposed by cost.
Research
CAP shares external and internal parts and rearranges assembling method through its innovative wind tunnel design, reducing manufacture complexity and cost. Such design enables lower retail prices and allows massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality.
Inspiration
People in developing regions are facing the situation of low income and air quality issue. So the design team try to create a innovative wind tunnel to reduce manufacture complexity and cost. The design aim to allow massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality. So, we redesigned the structure of the product and merged various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the wind tunnel parts into one. Then, this product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the volume and costs.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2019 in Beijing and finished in March 2020 in ShenZhen, China.
Operation Flow
Touch the button on the top of the machine.
Team Members
Xu Chen
YaoGang Chen
Rong Zhang
ZhiXue Zou

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