Sirocco Pākani by Shengtao Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Lako Leo a me Mea Kani Competition Category.

HaoLako Leo· 2024

Sirocco Pākani

by Shengtao Ma

Client: Qingdao Thousand Wood Industrial Design Company Limited

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Lako Leo Category

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The Design

About Sirocco Pākani

ʻO Sirocco he pākani hana nui, ua alakaʻi ʻia kona hoʻolālā e nā kukui Pākē. He koʻikoʻi a hoʻohou i ke ʻano kumuwaiwai. Ma o ka hoʻolālā kumuwaiwai hale meli kūʻokoʻa, hoʻomau a hoʻolaha aku i ka leo, a pela e hoʻonui aʻe ai i ka ʻike o ka mea hoʻohana a me ke kalena o ka mele, a e lawe mai i ka ʻike hoʻohana ʻē aʻe a me ka ʻike ʻikeia i ka mea hoʻohana. Hiki ke pepaʻi, a ʻo ka ʻili o ka pākani, hiki ke waiho a hāʻawi like ʻia, me nā ʻano ʻili like ʻole, hiki ke pani ʻia i kēlā me kēia manawa e like me ka manaʻo o ka mea hoʻohana a me ke kahua o ka hale.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Sirocco Pākani i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Sirocco Pākani he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Sirocco Pākani no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This speaker further conducts and diffuses sound through its unique honeycomb structure design, thereby further enhancing the user's experience and music quality.
This speaker is foldable. The speaker's shell is stowable and modular, and comes with a variety of shell shapes that can be replaced at any time according to the user's mood and home environment. Improve sound quality.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 180mm x Length 180mm x Height 350mm
Tags: Honeycomb, Modular, Warm, Natural, Retro, Humanized, High-Fidelity
Production Technology: The switch and volume adjustment part of the speaker adopts the retro horizontal sliding adjustment form. The main part uses a large number of wooden structures, and the foldable honeycomb structure at the upper end can be assembled and disassembled by rotation, making it easy to replace, store and clean.
Design Challenge: The challenge in the design process of this product was how to combine the honeycomb structure of the lantern with the speaker and have replaceable modular functions.
Research: Based on the traditional speaker, this product has a new design for its appearance and structure. It improves the sound quality through a unique honeycomb structure and adds replaceable modular functions, making it interesting.
Inspiration: This speaker is inspired by Chinese lanterns. The structure of the Chinese lantern is extracted and simplified, and its unique honeycomb structure is combined with the speaker to help improve the sound quality.
In addition, the Chinese lantern is foldable, and its application on the casing of the speaker makes it stowable and modular. It allows users to store it conveniently, and at the same time, it can be replaced with different appearances according to the user's preferences.
Project Duration: The project starts at Qingdao University of Technology in August 2023 and ends at Qingdao University of Technology in February 2024.
Operation Flow: This speaker can be connected to the user's mobile phone or computer and other devices via Bluetooth, or you can choose to connect with a data cable. The appearance and structure are inspired by the honeycomb structure of Chinese lanterns, which can improve the sound quality and make it easy to fold, store and replace.