Ocean View Kattasandkassi by Shibing Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award í bronsi in Hönnun gæludýravara, leikfanga og búnaðar Competition Category.
BronsGæludýravörur· 2023
Ocean View Kattasandkassi
by Shibing Yang
Client: Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
A' Design Award í bronsi Winner in Gæludýravörur Category
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About Ocean View Kattasandkassi
Ocean View er kattasandkassi í laginu eins og lítil nútímaleg villa. Grindin er úr sprautumótuðum pólýprópýlenplötum og kemur flatpökkuð, svo samsetning krefst engra verkfæra. Bogadregið þakið er sísalmotta sem haldið er föst með tveimur seglum, og hægt er að skipta um mottuna þegar hún slitnar vegna klóra. Tónuð framhlið og formmótaðar pólýúretandyr halda innra rýminu dimmu, sem hentar kettinum vel við notkun. Blómakassi á annarri hliðinni tekur við litlum til meðalstórum plöntum. Hægt er að taka alla hluta í sundur og þvo þá, og setja síðan saman aftur þegar þeir eru þurrir.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award í bronsi
Ocean View Kattasandkassi vann A' Design Award í bronsi, mjög virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er framúrskarandi hönnunarverkum sem einkennast af sköpunargáfu, hugvitssemi og skarpskyggni. Sigurvegarar í bronsi eru ríkulega leiknir og áberandi skapandi gripir sem staðfesta víðtæka reynslu, ímyndunarafl og útsjónarsemi hönnuða sinna. Þess er vænst að Ocean View Kattasandkassi sé mjög metinn, dáður og elskaður hlutur sem er einstaklega fagmannlegur og nýstárlegur. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í bronsi felur í sér bestu starfsvenjur í list, vísindum, hönnun og tækni og er framúrskarandi fyrir athygli sína á smáatriðum. Ocean View Kattasandkassi fullnægir þörfum á dásamlegan hátt, snertir langanir, heillar tilfinningar og vekur forvitni.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ocean-view is a design project that aims to combine litter boxes with plants, it comes flat-packed, and can be assembled without any tools. Its appearance is an asymmetrical villa with a contemporary design, on one side the user can put the small to medium-sized plant in the specially designed box to complete the villa look, making the litter box more of eye candy in the space. It creates a nice little house within the home, its plant compatibility also creates a more natural environment.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 570mmxDepth 590mmxHeight 460 mm
- Tags
- Cat furniture, Litter box, Greenery, Pet friendly, home decor
- Production Technology
- The litter box is structured by a set of PP plastic panels made by injection molding technique, the roof is a changeable sisal mat that is magnetically connected to the box body, the cat door is a piece of polyurethane sheet cut in shape fixed onto the front panel by a plastic hinge.
- Design Challenge
- The first challenge is to understand cat behavior to truly design a good litter box. It is known when excreting the animal is in a vulnerable state, so they tend to find hidden places, so it has a tinted front and door to prevent light to go through. Another challenge is transport cost, we see flat pack as core criteria, we thought of using flexible material, and combined with the need for scratching from cats, we decided to make the curved roof out of sisal mat, one material that cats really love.
- Research
- Our study has shown that cat owners found it hard to purchase an ideal litter box from the market, the main reason is that most products neglected the fact that as a part of home furnishing the litter box has to look good. As other studies point out, symbolic meaning will help consumers appreciate products more, and we see the potential of the litter box as a focal point of space.
- Inspiration
- Growing up we loved to build tiny houses imagining living inside them. Inspired by such interesting activity and mindset, the Ocean-view was created to convert a litter box into something more interesting with a contemporary look that resembles to a vacation home. Referencing modern architecture, it has minimal form with a curved roof, beneath the cantilevered roof there is a planter box where customers can grow cactus or succulent plants inside, making it a scaled-down ocean-view villa for cats.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Shenzhen in April of 2022 and completed in Shenzhen in June of 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The product serves as a normal litter box in general, in addition to that the user can create their own little plant composition on the side of it.
To scoop the litter, the user will have to roll up the sisal mat roof and scoop it from the top or the side.
To clean the box, the user can take it apart and wash it separately and assemble it back when dried.
The roof is designed to be changeable with two magnets connectors, so once it is worn out from cat scratch, the user can simply change a new one. - Team Members
- Designer: Shibing Yang
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