Sirocco Aut-parlaire by Shengtao Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Productes Àudio Competition Category.

FèrreProductes Àudio· 2024

Sirocco Aut-parlaire

by Shengtao Ma

Client: Qingdao Thousand Wood Industrial Design Company Limited

A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Productes Àudio Category

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The Design

About Sirocco Aut-parlaire

Sirocco es un aut-parlaire multifoncional, que son design es inspirat per las lanternas chinesas. Es ausaç e innovant dins sa estructura. A travèrs lo design unic d'estructura en nit d'abelhas, conduch e difusa melhor lo son, melhorant aital l'experiéncia d'utilizacion e la qualitat musicala, e apòrta als utilizaires una experiéncia d'usatge e visuala diferenta. Es tanben plegable, e lo bastiment de l'aut-parlaire es estocable e modular, amb una varietat de fòrmas de bastiment, que pòdon èsser remplaçadas a tot moment segon l'umor de l'utilizaire e l'interior de son ostal.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

Sirocco Aut-parlaire a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Sirocco Aut-parlaire siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Sirocco Aut-parlaire merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

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.