Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku by Wei Huang

Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku by Wei Huang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

PerakParabot· 2021

Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku

by Wei Huang

Client: Bruce Tao

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Parabot Category

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Verified Award Winner

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The Design

About Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku

Grille adolah rak buku modular nan taracak dari bantuak grille tradisional Cino. Rak buku ko tabuek dari kayu pinus jo ukuran panjang 124 cm, leba 32 cm, sarato tinggi 186 cm. Sabuah rangko putiah manahan kotak-kotak kayu ketek, ampek dalam satiok baris jo anam dalam satiok kolom. Satiok kotak ketek buliah dipasang dalam ampek arah nan babeda, jo salah satu bagian kotak diputa sabanyak 45 darajat. Pangguno marakik sandiri kotak-kotak tu, mangko banyak corak nan babeda dapek dibuek. Rak buku ko manyadiokan tampek panyimpanan nan buliah diatur manuruik salero pribadi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku adolah pamenang A' Design Award Perak, sabuah pangakuan nan luar biaso bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan tingkaik tatinggi, elok jo mangesankan. Pamenang Perak adolah karya nan sangaik cemerlang jo sangaik kreatif nan mamparlihatkan kapakaran, bakaik jo katajaman pikiran parancangnyo. Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku dipaokan manjadi karya nan mangaguikan, contoh tauladan, sangaik profesional jo inovatif sacaro dalam. Rancangan nan manang Perak iko adolah panemuan nan nampak jo dikagumi nan mambari sumbangan untuak maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Grille Primary Function: Rak Buku adolah ciptaan nan dicamburui banyak urang, nan mambangkikkan karinduan, mambaok parasaan positif jo malahiakan karagumon jo kakaguman.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a unique bookcase design. The most different thing about it is that it is a DIY bookcase. It is divided into small wood box and white big bookcase as two parts. The bookcase can put four small boxes in each row and six in each column. The small box can also be placed in four directions. This combination opens multiple possibilities. Users can make up their own patterns according to this feature.
Dimensions & Packaging: length 124cm x Width 32 cm x Height 186cm
Tags: Bookcase, DIY, Different, Chinese icon, Beautiful, Assembly, Grille
Production Technology: The bookcase is made of pine wood. Pine does not have a very good smell of pine fragrance, texture is very soft, is the cheapest material in solid wood furniture, widely used in mid-grade solid wood furniture, many log furniture and children's furniture are made of pine. It has the advantages of cheap price, natural environmental protection, not easy to deform, clear and beautiful texture, strong elasticity and air permeability, good thermal conductivity and simple maintenance.
Design Challenge: This is an innovative design with a complex internal structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Research: The most common consideration for users to buy bookcases is the amount of storage, the convenience of using (taking books to buy books), the space, the safety (including formaldehyde and stability), and the cost performance. Formaldehyde is mainly a problem to be considered when choosing wooden bookshelves.
Inspiration: I got inspiration from the ancient Chinese grille and designed this bookcase by the form of a grid. Nowadays, more and more people like DIY products. The motivation for our design is that this is a free-form bookcase. Too neat a grid is not free. So, we rotate one part of the small box by 45 degrees. This not only fits our design motivation, but also allows users to combine patterns according to their own preferences.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2020 in Milan and finished in February 2021 in that place, and was exhibited in China in February 2021.
Operation Flow: First, remove all the small boxes when users start assembling. The size of the bookcase can hold 4 small boxes in each row and 6 in each column. Then make them stack up after filling out the row. Each small box has 4 direction to put altogether. Users can diy according to the pattern that they like.
Team Members: Design leader: Shiwen Huang
Designer: Yuebing Chen
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Designer)