Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam by Yuqi Wang

Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam by Yuqi Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Kub in Tsim Rooj Tog Competition Category.

KubRooj Tog· 2025

Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam

by Yuqi Wang

Client: Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award Kub Winner in Rooj Tog Category

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The Design

About Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam

Accordion yog ib lub rooj zaum sofa uas ua tau ntau yam los ntawm ib lub qauv hauv paus xwb. Lub qauv hauv paus hloov tau qhov loj thiab tus duab los ntawm kev nias tuab, zoo ib yam li lub plab ntawm lub accordion. Muaj ntau hom kev teeb tsa rooj zaum sofa uas tsim tau los ntawm ib lub qauv xwb kom haum rau ntau qhov chaw sib txawv. Lub cev ua los ntawm cov foam uas nias tau thiab rov qab tau zoo, thiab cov ntoo sab nrog sib txuas nrog cov hlua khov thiab cov pob tig kho tau. Tig cov pob tig ua rau cov hlua rub ceev thiab nias lub rooj zaum sofa. Lub rooj zaum sofa kuj nias tau kom ntim rau hauv thawv tiaj tiaj, uas txo tus nqi ntim khoom, khaws cia thiab thauj mus los.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kub

Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Kub, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib ib, zoo kawg nkaus thiab tshwj xeeb. Cov neeg yeej Kub yog cov khoom tsim tshiab heev, pom deb heev thiab ci ntsa iab uas qhia txog kev txawj ntse, kev txawj thiab lub zog ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam xav tias yuav yog ib qho kev tsim uas tau txais kev qhuas ntau, tsim kev nyiam tshiab thiab loj uas ua rau muaj nqi tsis tau muaj dua. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Kub no yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus thiab muaj kev hwm uas pab tau ntau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Accordion Rooj Zaum Sofa Ua Tau Ntau Yam ua rau muaj kev xav tau heev, txhawb kev mob siab, txhawb kev tsim tshiab thiab ua rau peb xav tsis thoob.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a modular sofa. What sets it apart from most modular sofas is that it uses a single base module capable of changing size and shape to create endless sofa configurations. Additionally, it can be compressed for flat-pack packaging, making it easy to carry while also reducing packaging, storage, and transportation costs.
Dimensions & Packaging: The sofa dimensions are W890*D1150*H700mm.Since the main body of the sofa is made of high-resilience compressible foam, it is volume can be significantly reduced through mechanical compression during packaging. The flat dimensions of the sofa are W230*D1150*H700mm. It’s only 2/5 of the sofa.This reduction lowers the costs associated with packaging, warehousing, and logistics. It also can be easily placed in a shopping cart or carried on the back.
Tags: Modular sofa, Transformable sofa, Flat-packing, Portable sofa, Playful sofa, Tool-free assembly, Sofa for all spaces, Sofa for all spaces
Production Technology: The sofa is made of high-resilience compressible foam, and the wooden side panels on both sides are connected by durable climbing ropes and adjustable knobs. By rotating the knobs we can pull the internal ropes tight, the side panels can compress the sofa and achieve shape changes and size changes.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part of this project was designing a simple mechanism to adjust the sofa's shape. There are almost no sofas on the market that can change their form through compression, leaving us with no existing examples to reference. As a result, we researched compression structures across various fields and ultimately found inspiration for the sofa's compression mechanism in industrial machinery. We then created a simple prototype to verify its feasibility.
Research: Our research is aimed at the furniture market, and we hope to get an innovative sofa product through our project. We Collected information through our e-commerce department, including user’s evaluation, Logistics distribution evaluation and other multi-angle information. We have identified several issues with many current sofa products, such as excessive specifications, difficulty in selection, large size, transportation challenges, and the inability to adapt to various spatial layouts. To address these market problems, we designed this sofa.
Inspiration: The design of the accordion sofa is inspired by the dynamic changes of the bellows during an accordion performance. This gave me an idea: if a sofa's base module could be compressed to change its shape, just like an accordion bellows, then this transformable module could be combined into endless sofa configurations. This would minimize the number of sofa specifications needed.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2024 in Hangzhou and it is scheduled to be completed by July 2025,and available for sale in October 2025.
Operation Flow: The three knobs on the side of the sofa are located at the top of the backrest, the bottom of the backrest, and the front of the seat cushion. Rotating the different knobs tightens the durable outdoor ropes inside the sofa at those positions, pulling the side wooden panels closer together. As the panels compress the sofa, different shapes are achieved. The knob design features clear and intuitive patterns, making it very easy to operate. Two sofas can be connected using the knobs and the wooden holes on the opposite side, much like Lego bricks.