Hanoi 可拆卸沙发 by Yuqi Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

银家具· 2024

Hanoi 可拆卸沙发

by Yuqi Wang

Client: Kuka Home Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Hanoi 可拆卸沙发

河内是一款专为平板包装设计的可拆卸沙发。整张沙发无需工具、胶水或金属配件,约四分钟即可组装完成。四根榉木立柱旋入木质底座上的螺纹孔中,随后将软包靠背与扶手套装于立柱之上,并以每根立柱顶部的螺纹盖加以固定,最后放置坐垫。包装体积仅为组装后沙发的五分之二,从而降低了包装、仓储与运输成本。其结构灵感源自「河内塔」益智游戏。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Hanoi 可拆卸沙发是 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Hanoi 可拆卸沙发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。Hanoi 可拆卸沙发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

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Hanoi Sofa is designed for flat packaging. It can be easily assembled in 4 minutes without any tools or metal parts by attaching the upholstered parts to four wooden pillars. Vice versa, it's also easy to disassemble. The joints between wooden pillars and sofa base are with threads to reinforce the structure. Similarly, the caps at the top of the pillars are also threaded. The volume of the packaged sofa is only 2/5 of an assembled one. It optimizes the cost of package, storage and transportation.
Dimensions & Packaging: Flat packaging size, W2050×D960×H320mm. Assembled sofa size, W2050×D980×H830mm. The volume of the packaged sofa is only 2/5 of an assembled one. It optimizes the cost of package, storage and transportation.
Tags: Sofa, Flat-Packing, Detachable sofa, Easy Assembly, Tool-free Assembly, Quick Assembly, Sustainable Design
Production Technology: The key structure of Hanoi Sofa is made of beech wood. It's hard enough for us to carve stairs for the wooden pillars and threads for the joints and the caps at the top of the wooden pillars. By rotating the threaded parts, we can get a sturdy structure for the sofa. This interesting structure has been validated through our experiment.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of this project was to create a simple and interesting assembly method. There were already so many different types of detachable sofas. We had to come up with a structure that was simple, enables mass production, and has not been used on other sofas by anyone else. We did a lot of work on wood construction to ensure that the wood structure can be firmly assembled without tools, glue or metal parts.
Research: Our research is aimed at the furniture market, and we hope to get an innovative sofa product through our project. We collected online information, including user feedback through our e-commerce department and learned that many sofas now are large in size, difficult to assemble, difficult to storage and with other problems. So we designed this sofa to solve these problems.
Inspiration: Tower of Hanoi is a popular intelligence toy worldwide. The process of players moving the rings onto the towers inspired me to design Hanoi Sofa. I want to design a sofa that is easy and fun to assemble, a sofa that can optimize the volume and the cost of package, storage and transportation, and a sofa that is in line with the concept of sustainable design. This interesting structure has been validated through our experiment and the materials are all environmentally friendly.
Project Duration: This project started in Hangzhou in September 2023 and will be completed in Hangzhou in February 2024. The structural testing has been completed and the sofa is scheduled to be launched in May 2024.
Operation Flow: Firstly, we need to rotate the four wooden pillars into the four screw holes in the wood base. Then we attach the backrests and armrests to the four pillars through the holes. Next, it is fixed by the threaded caps at the top of the wooden pillars. Finally, put the cushions on the sofa. So we assembled this sofa easily and quickly without tools or metal parts.
Patents: Patented.
Patent No.2023232943808
Patent Holder: Yuqi Wang
Year: 2023
Jurisdiction：China