Glay Armarium Intellegens by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Glay Armarium Intellegens by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Producta Infantium Competition Category.

FerrumProducta Infantium· 2021

Glay Armarium Intellegens

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M Design

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Producta Infantium Category

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The Design

About Glay Armarium Intellegens

Glay est armarium intellegens pueris destinatum. Unitas mensuras habet: latitudinem 1500 mm, altitudinem a fronte ad tergum 600 mm, et altitudinem 1200 mm. Una ostium ex charta electronica factum est, quod tabulam ad pingendum, tabulam ad colores addendos, et velum ad ludos simplices praebet. Superficies lignea ostii foramina habet ad tesseras aedificatorias, litteras, et numeros aptandos. Compages extrahi potest ut parvum cubiculum ludendi efficiat, et mensa cum duabus sellis equitandi formis inclusae sunt. Parentes exemplaria ostii per nexum sine filis mutare possunt, ita ut pueri tempus dormiendi appropinquans videre possint, vestibus interea ordinatis manentibus.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Glay Armarium Intellegens victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Glay Armarium Intellegens creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Glay Armarium Intellegens ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This closet gives children imagination to create the atmosphere they want. They can transform the closet to play inside, can do coloring, and can arrange their clothes with it. It has also a frame for pulling out to be a secret play room, a table to write and two riding chairs.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 1500mm x Depth 600mm x Height 1200mm
Tags: Smartfurniture, maltyfunction, kidsfurniture, adesignaward, waronvirus, stayhome, marcoguariglia
Production Technology: The e door corroborated with E ink Cor. using e paper in the new area of kids furniture which is not often considered. It can be used as a drawing board, coloring board with bear patterns and shooting games. The wood surface of the door has holes for playing blocks, training logical thinking from 2D to 3D or practice numbers and the alphabet with it.
Design Challenge: Using e paper on the surface made this project big enough to need a team of engineers and carpentors to work with, challenging their abilities and overcoming their reluctance to deal with Glay, which became a learning experience for all involved.
Research: As a parent, the designer was focusing on how to introduce technology and digital things to children without missing the experience of real objects in their lives. He decided to use time as the topic on the digital door, to help children understand how fast the time passes by.
Inspiration: The designer showed his daughter a draft for a children's closet but she rejected it saying she wants a closet to play with as well as to keep her clothes tidy. While avoiding overuse of digitalization, Glay brings back the real touch and feel mechanics that naturally attract children's interests. By design the digital connects with the real life interaction.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2017 in Taipei and finished in April 2018 in Taipei, and was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in April 2018, Milan, Italy. At 2019, it was awarded by Good Design Award Chicago, U.S.A.
Operation Flow: Through blue tooth, parents can control the digital door color and patterns. The house work timer function could be arranged in the phone calendar as well. The designer wants to let kids know their sleep time is close by seeing the changing patterns on the door.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Marco Guariglia, 2018.
Team Members: Designer: Marco Guariglia
Creative Director: Jui Ju Lin
Wood Work: Joe Hsieh
Wood Work: Hao Jhe Li
Wood Work: Sheng Xun Zhan
Image Credits: Image #Main: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #1: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #2: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Model: Jui-Ju Lin/ Yalex Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #4: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020