Modular 环卫工具房 by He Qi and Xinbo Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 街道家具设计 Competition Category.

铁街道家具· 2021

Modular 环卫工具房

by He Qi and Xinbo Wang

Client: China Construction Science & Technology Group Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Branch

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 街道家具 Category

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The Design

About Modular 环卫工具房

"模块"是一系列为城市公共街道设计的环卫工具房。每个工具房由模块化的空间单元组合而成，使整个系列具有灵活性和可扩展性。单个单元可作为独立的环卫工具房使用，多个单元则可组合成小型多功能公共空间。室内布局依据环卫工具的标准尺寸设计，并充分利用垂直空间以提升储物效率。主体结构采用钢材，外表面采用氟碳喷涂铝板，具备良好的耐腐蚀与抗划伤性能。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Modular 环卫工具房是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Modular 环卫工具房将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Modular 环卫工具房因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Composed of modular spatial elements, the urban sanitation tool room series boasts flexibility and expansibility, which can be used as a separate sanitation room with different functions or combined as a multifunctional small public area. Fully based on the needs of sanitation workers and the standard sizes of sanitation tools, the interior design makes the most of vertical space to improve the utilization of the room.
Dimensions & Packaging: cover an area of about 10 square meters
Tags: Modular, Urban Sanitation Tool Room, Infrastructure Construction, Utilization of the room, Public Infrastructure
Production Technology: Steel is used in the main structure, and the veneer is made of the fluorocarbon painted aluminum plate to effectively resist corrosion and scratch. The inner layer adopts the galvanized steel wire mesh, flame retardant oxygen barrier film, rock wool heat insulation board and waterproof roll, and the bottom is made of silicon carbide floor adhesive to render it elastic, stable and not easy to deform.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge was to synergize various elements with different functions in a horizontal structural layout. Therefore, the BIM software modeling is adopted to the product design. Together with the 3D models for the analysis of the structure, volume, interference and collision, each module is optimized in structure for easier mass production and later assembly.
Research: The products are aimed at designing a public infrastructure that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional. The designer studied existing urban infrastructure designs and concluded that the products should fit into the urban environment, and they must be easy to manufacture, install and transport so as to withstand public use.
Inspiration: Mainly inspired by the infrastructure construction in public places, the designer hopes to provide sanitation workers with a more humane working environment via the modular basic space, thus reshaping the image of functional rooms in the mind of people. It also serves to improve the modernized, intelligent and humanized urban facility system by combing the urban small public lavatories as well as garbage sorting and disposal systems.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenzhen in April 2020 with some of the products put into use in Shenzhen in December 2020, and more than one hundred are scheduled to be launched in Shenzhen by the end of 2021.
Operation Flow: The design can function as a separate sanitation tool room or be combined into a multifunctional urban public infrastructure. After being prefabricated in the factory, the products need to be placed in the corresponding urban areas for residents to interact with them, including public lavatories, small tool storage rooms, sanitation workers lounges, electric sweeper storage rooms and hand push sanitation truck storage rooms.
Team Members: He Qi
Xinbo Wang,
Xinyao Chen,
Xuxiong Deng,
Jiangwen He