Compact 空气净化器 by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 暖通空调产品设计 Competition Category.

银暖通空调· 2021

Compact 空气净化器

by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang

Client: Healthlead

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 暖通空调 Category

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The Design

About Compact 空气净化器

Compact 是一款专为小型室内空间设计的空气净化器。该产品在小巧的体积内实现每小时200立方米的洁净空气输出率，因而非常适合居住面积有限的空间。创新的风道设计将滤网支架、多个外部部件与风道整合为一体化组件，使主要零件仅剩五个。零件数量的精简降低了生产的复杂度与成本，让更洁净的室内空气变得更加经济实惠。机身顶部中央的弧形结构内置接收器，可与多种红外遥控器兼容配对。机体采用注塑成型的ABS材质制成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Compact 空气净化器是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Compact 空气净化器将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Compact 空气净化器是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The Compact Air Purifier can blend in multitype of small scale interiors to fit target customer's living condition credit to its 200m3/h CADR into a small volume. Curves at top center reveals a receiver matched with multitype of infrared remote controller, creating an overall visual center. Corner curves and clean design illuminates its elegant impression. It merges various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the air tunnel parts into one. Then, the product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the cost.
Dimensions & Packaging: White body with grey top. Dimensions: 308mm x 153mm x 461mm
Tags: air purifier, purifier, compact, cost, curve
Production Technology: White body with grey top. ABS injection molding.
Design Challenge: The challenge comes from design constraints imposed by cost.
Research: CAP shares external and internal parts and rearranges assembling method through its innovative wind tunnel design, reducing manufacture complexity and cost. Such design enables lower retail prices and allows massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality.
Inspiration: People in developing regions are facing the situation of low income and air quality issue. So the design team try to create a innovative wind tunnel to reduce manufacture complexity and cost. The design aim to allow massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality. So, we redesigned the structure of the product and merged various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the wind tunnel parts into one. Then, this product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the volume and costs.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2019 in Beijing and finished in March 2020 in ShenZhen, China.
Operation Flow: Touch the button on the top of the machine.
Team Members: Xu Chen
YaoGang Chen
Rong Zhang
ZhiXue Zou