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Accordion Lectus Modularis ab Yuqi Wang

Opus Accordion Lectus Modularis a designatore Yuqi Wang est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2025 Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Categoria Certaminis Designatio Supellectilis.


AurumSupellex· 2025

Accordion Lectus Modularis

a Yuqi Wang

Cliens: Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co.,Ltd.

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Categoria Supellex

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Designum

De Accordion Lectus Modularis

Accordion est lectus modularis ex uno modulo fundamentali constructus. Modulus fundamentalis magnitudinem formamque per compressionem mutat, follibus organi manualis (accordii) similis. Multae lecti dispositiones ex uno modulo creari possunt, ut diversis spatiis conveniant. Corpus ex spuma comprimibili magnae resilientiae factum est, et tabulae laterales ligneae funibus firmis nodisque adiustabilibus coniunguntur. Nodi versati funes contendunt lectumque comprimunt. Lectus etiam comprimi potest ad involucrum planum compactum, quod sumptus involucri, repositionis atque transportationis minuit.

Agnitio

De Praemium A' Design Award Aureum

Accordion Lectus Modularis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aureum, honoris amplissimi formis primi ordinis, mirabilibus et praestantibus dati. Victores Aurei sunt opera valde nova, provida et splendida, quae ingenium, sapientiam et peritiam auctorum suorum referunt. Exspectatur Accordion Lectus Modularis inventum laudatissimum, inclinationes creans et monumentale fore, quod pretium inauditum afferat. Haec forma Aureo praemio victa est incepto mirabile et honoratum, quod fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovet. Accordion Lectus Modularis cupiditatem vehementem excitat, studium accendit, ingenium creandi fovet et capit.

Post Designum

Fasciculus Nuntii

Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares
This is a modular sofa. What sets it apart from most modular sofas is that it uses a single base module capable of changing size and shape to create endless sofa configurations. Additionally, it can be compressed for flat-pack packaging, making it easy to carry while also reducing packaging, storage, and transportation costs.
Dimensiones et Involucrum
The sofa dimensions are W890*D1150*H700mm.Since the main body of the sofa is made of high-resilience compressible foam, it is volume can be significantly reduced through mechanical compression during packaging. The flat dimensions of the sofa are W230*D1150*H700mm. It’s only 2/5 of the sofa.This reduction lowers the costs associated with packaging, warehousing, and logistics. It also can be easily placed in a shopping cart or carried on the back.
Notulae
Modular sofa, Transformable sofa, Flat-packing, Portable sofa, Playful sofa, Tool-free assembly, Sofa for all spaces, Sofa for all spaces
Technologia Productionis
The sofa is made of high-resilience compressible foam, and the wooden side panels on both sides are connected by durable climbing ropes and adjustable knobs. By rotating the knobs we can pull the internal ropes tight, the side panels can compress the sofa and achieve shape changes and size changes.
Provocatio Designandi
The most challenging part of this project was designing a simple mechanism to adjust the sofa's shape. There are almost no sofas on the market that can change their form through compression, leaving us with no existing examples to reference. As a result, we researched compression structures across various fields and ultimately found inspiration for the sofa's compression mechanism in industrial machinery. We then created a simple prototype to verify its feasibility.
Investigatio
Our research is aimed at the furniture market, and we hope to get an innovative sofa product through our project. We Collected information through our e-commerce department, including user’s evaluation, Logistics distribution evaluation and other multi-angle information. We have identified several issues with many current sofa products, such as excessive specifications, difficulty in selection, large size, transportation challenges, and the inability to adapt to various spatial layouts. To address these market problems, we designed this sofa.
Inspiratio
The design of the accordion sofa is inspired by the dynamic changes of the bellows during an accordion performance. This gave me an idea: if a sofa's base module could be compressed to change its shape, just like an accordion bellows, then this transformable module could be combined into endless sofa configurations. This would minimize the number of sofa specifications needed.
Duratio Operis
The project started in December 2024 in Hangzhou and it is scheduled to be completed by July 2025,and available for sale in October 2025.
Cursus Operationis
The three knobs on the side of the sofa are located at the top of the backrest, the bottom of the backrest, and the front of the seat cushion. Rotating the different knobs tightens the durable outdoor ropes inside the sofa at those positions, pulling the side wooden panels closer together. As the panels compress the sofa, different shapes are achieved. The knob design features clear and intuitive patterns, making it very easy to operate. Two sofas can be connected using the knobs and the wooden holes on the opposite side, much like Lego bricks.

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