Shan Ni · CLIENT: by LAFA Industrial Design College
Free Conversion is a storage rack designed for narrow indoor spaces. The rack can stand on the floor or be fixed to a wall. Two-way tracks on both sides allow each storage basket to slide up and down, while transverse tracks allow the baskets to be pulled forward or pushed back. Baskets that are rarely used can be moved to the inner layer. The frame is made of metal, and the baskets are lined with linen that can be removed and cleaned. Colour marks on the front of each basket identify the stored items, such as toys, blankets and clothing.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This is a Free Conversion Storage Rack that can be fixed on the wall. The advantage of this design is different from other designs, users can drag each storage basket in the storage rack at will, and adjust the required storage basket at the appropriate height. And will use the temporary use of the storage basket moved to the inner layer. It is installed in narrow indoor space for storing toys, blankets, clothes, socks, etc., to save space and improve operational flexibility.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The static size of the Free Conversion Storage Frame is 550mm*440mm*2070mm, and the size of a single storage basket is 500mm*300mm*200mm.
- Tags
- storage, sliding, free conversion, indoor, landing, suspension, combination
- Production Technology
- This Free Conversion Storage Frame is mainly composed of metal frame, rail, metal basket frame, linen and other material components. The metal of rear end is worn can be fixed along the wall, after ensuring receiving articles, receiving the center of gravity that wears is smooth. The two sides of the receiving frame are equipped with two-way track, can slide up and down while, fixed point is provided with transverse track, can be dragged around the receiving basket. Linen is easy to remove and clean.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge of designing this Free Conversion Storage Rack is to find out the practical, simple and convenient use mode and applicable structure that users really need according to their pain points in the early stage. Improve the fluency of the user's behavior in a small space, and increase the user's positive emotions and even fun through simple sliding and assembly operations.
- Project Duration
- The project began in September 2020 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, was completed in Shenyang in January 2021, and will be exhibited in February 2021.
- Operation Flow
- First of all, in the process of use, the user can confirm the category of items by the color identification in front of the basket. When need not place article, all receive the position that the basket pushes and pulls to rely on a wall, reduce cover an area. Next, when the user needs to take when put article, can receive corresponding basket forward pull, when need a large number of clothings to be put, also can receive basket whole to draw out, wait for stack to install again after being put to finish. The high storage basket can be moved down to the appropriate height to take, the overall process is convenient and quick.
- Research
- In the early stage of product development, the quadrant method is used to analyze similar products of the existing Storage Rack, to study the advantages and limitations of the existing products, and to analyze the pain points of users. The designer thinks, the use of narrow space and flexible degree cannot become inversely proportional. Therefore, put forward the Storage Rack to be more convenient to put and occupy a small space as the design of the form of research points. The design by the project team members to participate in the design experiment, and finally to make effective results of the program.
- Inspiration
- When storing clothes, users usually put them in order for use next time. However, stack a lot of receivable basket or receivable frame is too high, take goods difficult. Therefore, users not only need to take up less space, but also need to be orderly and fast to find and retrieve items. Taking the pulley as the initial inspiration, it further proposes the storage framework which can be converted from the four directions of upper, lower, front and rear, as the design motive of the project.
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