Sirocco Altiloquium by Shengtao Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Producta Auditiva Competition Category.

FerrumProducta Auditiva· 2024

Sirocco Altiloquium

by Shengtao Ma

Client: Qingdao Thousand Wood Industrial Design Company Limited

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Producta Auditiva Category

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The Design

About Sirocco Altiloquium

Sirocco est altiloquium multifariam utile, cuius forma e lanternis Sinicis inspirata est. Structura audax novatrixque est. Per unicam structuram favis similem, sonum melius conducit et diffundit, ita experientiam usus et musicae qualitatem augens, utentibusque aliam experientiam usus et visus praebens. Etiam plicabile est, et involucrum altiloquii recondi ac mutari potest, modulare cum variis formis, quae pro animi habitu utentis et domestico ornatu quovis tempore immutari possunt.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Sirocco Altiloquium 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 Sirocco Altiloquium 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. Sirocco Altiloquium 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 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.