Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメット by Zhecheng Xu and Yuefeng Zhou

Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメット by Zhecheng Xu and Yuefeng Zhou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 安全服・個人防護具デザイン Competition Category.

銀防護具· 2020

Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメット

by Zhecheng Xu and Yuefeng Zhou

Client: Yuefeng ZHOU,Zhecheng XU,Haiwei WANG

A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 防護具 Category

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The Design

About Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメット

ヘルメットは、自然界に広く分布している3Dボロノイ構造に触発されています。パラメトリック技術とバイオニクスの組み合わせにより、自転車用ヘルメットは外部の機械システムを改善しています。これは、ブリッジされていないバイオニック3Dメカニカルシステムが従来のフレーク保護構造とは異なります。外力に当たると、この構造はより良い安定性を示します。軽量性と安全性のバランスが取れたこのヘルメットは、より快適でファッショナブルで安全な個人用自転車用ヘルメットを人々に提供することを目的としています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀賞

Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメットは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメットは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Voronoi 自転車用ヘルメットは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: With a combination of parametric technique and bionics, the bicycle helmet has an excellent external mechanical system. It's different from traditional flake protection structure in its unabridged bionic 3D mechanical system. When hit by an external force, this structure shows better stability. The helmet's porous characteristic makes it possible to achieve a perfect balance of safety and lightness. And the helmet can get better air permeability and organic cool appearance.
Dimensions & Packaging: The helmet is still in the experimental test stage. It comes in 3 sizes. Shell is constructed from carbon kevlar and fiberglass resin with a polystyrene lining.
Tags: Helmet, Bicycle, VORONOI, Parametric, Bionics, Lightness, Stability
Production Technology: Main Material: Shell is constructed from carbon kevlar and fiberglass resin with a polystyrene lining.
Design Challenge: It's a key of appearance design to make the structure system adapt to cavity form. In the research process, we have to arrange data interaction mechanism between different algorithm units. Iteration and feedback of data lead to the rationality of final simulation results,
Research: With the parametric technique, we take mechanical simulation experiments of inner structure sampling points. Based on the simulation date, structure sampling points are rearranged properly, and the helmet finally gets an integrated structure system. Considering the convenience of parametric technique, we can directly control the density parameter of the whole structure system, and specification parameter of the supporting system. After mechanical simulation experiments of the latest structure, the result of simulation affects controls parameter, which promotes the helmet's adaptation to different users and usage scenarios.
Inspiration: The helmet is inspired by 3D Voronoi structure which is widely distributed in Nature, for example, the structure of the animal's bone, turtle shell, and even straw, etc. The structure is a natural consequence of natural evolution, which gives the organism perfect physical performance in aspects of lightness, stability and energy interaction. Thus, we apply this parametric technique into the improvement of helmet design. At the balance of lightness and safety, we hope to provide people with more comfortable, more fashionable, and safer personal protection bicycle helmet.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2018 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China and would be available for mass consumption in July 2020 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Operation Flow: The helmet structure is the important design elements in this design. The helmet's porous characteristic makes it possible to achieve a perfect balance of safety and lightness. And the helmet can get better air permeability and organic cool appearance.
Team Members: Lead Designer:Zhecheng XU
Lead Designer:Yuefeng ZHOU
Lead Designer:Haiwei WANG