Sketch Rak by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Sketch Rak by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

PerakParabot· 2023

Sketch Rak

by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Freestyle Outdoor Living Co. Ltd

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Sketch Rak

Rak Sketch nyaéta rak anu teratur di tengah kacauan. Dijieun ku métode desain digital. Inspirasi desain rak ieu asalna tina kerangka baja gedung anu keur diwangun di lokasi konstruksi. Désainer ngagabungkeun garis-garis pikeun nyiptakeun rohangan panyimpenan ku cara maké algoritma. Garis-garis bisa disusun sacara métodis dina kacauan. Ditingali ti kajauhan, katingalina ngan ukur riweuh garis, tapi sabenerna mah rak. Jeung rak husus ieu henteu ngan méré jawaban pikeun manggihan kateupastian, tapi ogé kaéndahan téknologi modéren jeung seni.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Sketch Rak mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perak, pangakuan anu luar biasa bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain kelas luhur, endah jeung matak kagum. Para juara Perak téh karya anu pohara cemerlang jeung pohara kréatif anu ngagambarkeun kaahlian, bakat jeung kapinteran para désainerna. Sketch Rak diharepkeun jadi karya anu éndah, karya andalan anu pohara profésional jeung pohara inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perak ieu mangrupa panemuan anu pohara kasohor jeung dikagumi anu mangpaat sarta ngamajukeun watesan seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi. Sketch Rak mangrupa kréasi anu pohara diirikeun anu ngahudang kahayang, ngabawa rasa positip, jeung ngahudangkeun rasa heran jeung kagum.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.
Dimensions & Packaging: 812 mm * 424 mm * 1630 mm
Tags: shelf, line, office, commercial furniture, art furniture, digital design
Production Technology: Designer discuss the application of digital design method to give the product a new form of research. First, we build a framework of product form we want, and then use grasshopper software to generate some shapes randomly. Designers adjust these forms according to ergonomics, aesthetics, etc., and choose the style suitable for industrial mass production technology, and finally present a work.
Random forms are difficult to manufacture because they cannot be made directly after traditional engineering drawings. So we decided to break the whole into pieces of metal, and then connect the pieces.
Design Challenge: Social perspective. It can challenge the public's understanding of traditional shelves.
Technology implementation. During the design process, the computer will produce a lot of random structures, designers need to balance the relationship between these random forms and product forms. In addition, designers should balance these random forms with the realization of industrial mass production.
Research: Digital design, a dynamic design style, pursuing uncertainties, can create a huge amount of variate by logical algorithm, as well as interact with human. Therefore, these random states and results of a new sense of openness bring people in certain environment more space of imagination, which we believe will change our way of thinking someday.
Inspiration: The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. They are complex and orderly, order within chaos.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2020 in Hangzhou
Operation Flow: The shelf can hold things, crisscross lines can also hang things, and the top support leg can be exposed to hang clothes.
Team Members: Xuelian Li
Shichao Wang
Hongwang Zhu
Lihong Xin