Sirocco Speaker by Shengtao Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Besi in Desain Peralatan Audio dan Suara Competition Category.

BesiProduk Audio· 2024

Sirocco Speaker

by Shengtao Ma

Client: Qingdao Thousand Wood Industrial Design Company Limited

A' Design Award Besi Winner in Produk Audio Category

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The Design

About Sirocco Speaker

Sirocco adalah speaker multifungsi yang desainnya terinspirasi dari lentera Tiongkok. Ia memiliki struktur yang berani dan inovatif. Melalui desain struktur sarang lebah yang unik, ia menghantarkan dan menyebarkan suara dengan lebih baik, sehingga meningkatkan pengalaman pengguna dan kualitas musik, menghadirkan pengalaman penggunaan dan visual yang berbeda. Ia juga dapat dilipat, dan casing speaker dapat disimpan serta bersifat modular, dengan berbagai bentuk casing yang dapat diganti sewaktu-waktu sesuai dengan suasana hati pengguna dan lingkungan rumah.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Besi

Sirocco Speaker adalah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengakuan yang bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain yang baik yang memenuhi persyaratan profesional dan industri yang diharapkan dari kreasi yang dirancang dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan keterampilan yang besar, spesialisasi yang tinggi, pemahaman ahli, dan kapasitas kreatif para penciptanya. Sirocco Speaker diharapkan menjadi kreasi yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai yang praktis dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini mengintegrasikan praktik terbaik industri dan memiliki karakteristik teknis yang kompeten yang terkait dengan pengetahuan teknis dan bakat. Sirocco Speaker dihormati karena ketelitiannya dan dirancang untuk memberikan peningkatan kualitas hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

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.