Bronze Furniture Design · 2019
Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
by Simina Filat
- A' Design Award 2019 Bronze Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2019
- CLIENT: Simina Filat Design
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About Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
Ruumy was designed to be a multifunctional textile, furniture that can be transformed from an architectural wall into a wardrobe, into home decorative items, or even in garments, handbags, accessories, by dismantling parts and fitting the desired accessories. Ruumy is made of recycled materials and has the shape of a textile puzzle without edges. The design of this object helps contemporary nomads, to transport and pack their ambulatory universe easily and quickly, adapts spaces in which it cannot intervene constructively and combines elements of home decoration.
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- Unique Properties
- Ruumy is a range of modular furniture with a design that can be combined to form room dividers, home decor panels, cabinets or even garments, and allows fast and easy packing. The design allows the wardrobe to transform into a garment, a bag or home decor. Carefully made of soft material, Ruumy is a modular cabinet in the shape of a puzzle with up to 10 highly functional end uses.
The first aim is to help frequent movers to keep and easily transport some of their furniture. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Ruumy is a multifunctional modular textile puzzle where you can store things, you can pack it with ease in a special bag for ruumy parts, with a weight of under 5 kilograms for a textile wall of 250 cm width, and 250 cm height, 49 small ruumy parts.
- Tags
- Co-working, Community, Interconnectivity, CoDesign, Multifunctional, Modular, Sustainable, Furniture, Fashion.
- Production Technology
- Our vision is that Ruumy is not thrown away, but can be exchanged in the online community. This way we can reduce the environmental pollution with the production of new textiles and increase the life of the product. The zipper system allows the user to transform his wardrobe into a garment, bag or home decor. We are using recycled materials, ends of textile bundle, and materials produced in small communities of craftsmen with local tradition.
- Design Challenge
- Ruumy is a product of the new Post Internet Culture era, specific to the co-creative ecosystem, economy, with motto The Power of Ecosystems - Managing in a Networked World. Once launched, becomes a relatively autonomous system of self-adjustment, and those who integrate resources are connected to communication networks and create mutual values. The difficulty of the project was to create creative, sustainable, innovative communities capable of changing mentalities in cultural and economic terms.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2017, and was exhibited in Galateca Gallery, Bucharest in July 2017, Exhibition DIPLOMA The Institute, Bucharest in October 2017, 15Design Gallery, Bucharest in May 2018, Romanian Design Week 2018 Bucharest in May 2018, Exhibition Zain design expressions Cluj Napoca in October 2018, The National Salon of Contemporary Art National Library of Romania in November 2018.
- Operation Flow
- Ruumy is an object with a geometric shape that has the appearance of a puzzle wall, and whose parts have, by dismantling, mounting them using the zippers, different utilities. Depending on the number of parts and types of connectors, straps, accessories, you use, you can create different design objects, fashion garments. Partition Wall, Cabinet, Pillows, Tent, Hammock, Mobile Library, Shoe Organizers, Blanket, Sleeping Bag, Vertical Garden, Sofa Cushion, Outside Garment, Handbags, Travel Bags.
- Research
- Ruumy develops into a thinking program that creates a new media with projects, applied in co-design, sustainability, community, internet culture. Ruumy NetWorking is a co-creative program with the mission of inspiring a new way of thinking about aesthetics, function and role of the object in today's civilization, how we build our own life forms. The project started with 21 people from different cultural elites, they composed the desired pieces in a standard time, a project being filmed and documented.
- Inspiration
- Social movements, trends studied, people around, the wishes, demands of customers, the very rapid advancement of the technology, all these leads to the questions, How would it be if the wall of this room would also serve as a cabinet? What if the cabinet would become a coat? How would it be if you can dress the wall? The project is creating an online community of customers, to exchange or borrow pieces, what is old for you, it is new to me, that would promote contacts between newcomers and local people.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019
Image #3: Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019
Image #5: Photographer Stefania Dana Tanase, 2019
Video Credits: Photographer Mihaela Tudor, 2019
Colors of Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
Design Interview about Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture
Ruumy started from the idea of transforming a raw textile material into different shapes that surprised both the nature of the fabric and the nature of space, the architectural dimension and the function of furniture. Practically, clothing and space represent the everyday dimensions and necessities of each person, so I tried to capture through a single abstract gesture different hypostases of the body, the need for space and the need for clothing.
I wanted to create a multifunctional object that is very closely related to the body, as clothing, and as a space of architecture. In this context, the focus was on the idea of flexible, interchangeable, modularity and the way in which these ideas can work and create new forms.
This award gives me the opportunity to launch in an ample way this product on the international market
It began with a research 2 years ago, followed by different concept sketches, layouts, samples, experiments, and co-creation workshops.
It is a research that has begun in the academic environment as a preoccupation, following experiments, in the desire to create a product for a wider range of utilities
Ruumy is a concept I want in a collaborative form. All the samples are produced in their own workshop, but mass production will be outsourced to a factory with production power.
The product is aimed at a young audience in a continuous dynamic, and these features inspired me and made me create a product for this type of nomadic existence.
When designing the concept I worked with several designers from different specialties, for the architectural dimension I worked with Phd. architect Emil Ivanescu and for clothing size I worked with PhD. designer Ioana Sanda Avram.
The target segment is young people who live time periods in different places with nomadic experiences. Contemporary nomadic living involves the use of multiple-function objects, easy to carry, to assemble, to handle, to recycle.
Ruumy directly combines functions from totally different areas, namely the clothing area, the body-protective coat, and the mobile architecture area, which is an extension of the body, is a tool.
The project has the name Ruumy, a name composed of three words: room, roommates and Remy. Words explaining the three valences of this project: architecture, community and Remy, playful design, modulated, creative and direct with an open invitation to "co-creation" in this project.
This project started with a research of future social trends, then various samples were made in the workshop, and social and co-creative experiments.
The object can easily transform from architectural space into clothing, and at the same time it becomes a co-creation tool for the online community
When designing the concept I worked with several designers from different specialties, for the architectural dimension I worked with Phd. architect Emil Ivanescu and for clothing size I worked with PhD. designer Ioana Sanda Avram.
The digital side of the project involves creating communities using electronic communication technology. The online product platform is a cocreating platform, an interactive digital community. Ruumy also includes hand crafts, textile processing and woodworking.
World population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, according to a new UN DESA report, on this basis, our multifunctional product is a solution to reduce wood consumption for furniture and to also reduce the textile consumption used for clothing and handbags.
To be able to design an object for so many functions while preserving its integrity, being an easy, flexible product, and responding to nomadism was not easy. All of his decomposition process required finding the best technological solution, not very expensive, and to have a certain aesthetic expression.
I want the project, I created, to be exposed and analyzed in a professional environment and by a professional jury.
This design was actually a research process, I started to discover different hypostases and respond to different challenges that I had to research, I deepen.
We created this product for different market segments, from artsy style to nomad living, but I think the biggest challenge is to offer this product at a best price with the best quality for a segment market as wide as possible.