Unlimitable
Furniture Design (Portable studying table)
Project Brief:
"Design children furniture for kindergarten students at Kampung Naga, located in Indonesia, Bandung using wood, bamboo, aluminium and upholstery"
Even though this project is done in a group of 4, each individual needs to do a design for children furniture.
Collaborated with Djalin and Cellini.
Target Audience:
Children who stays in the village
(aged 5- 6 years old)
What?
Furniture that can help them enhance their values and learning experience in school.
Potential Competitors:
Designed to keep messy play in control while encouraging creative expressions and keeping all contained in a neat tray-like package.
Made it look like a treasure chest and has top storage with chalkboard as an activity table.
User Research:
Talked with the locals to understand their culture and lifestyle. Everything, from cutlery to houses, was handmade by the villagers.
I learned that the children do not have any types of furniture at home and school due to insufficient space and they like spacious rooms. Hence, they do their homework on the floor.
Problem Statement:
Kids needs a way to feel secure and independent so that they do not feel insecure and powerless.
How might we
create objects that empowers children to be independent.
Materials:
These are the materials that my group intend to use in our products so that it will look like a family when all our products are placed together.
Wood
Black aluminium
Bamboo
(rattan weaving)
Ideations:
Sketches focusing on the details.
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Development of the table.
Testing the different color and material combinaitons.
Quick cardboard mockups to try the size and roughly how it will look.
Finalised Design:
Storage
Handle
Side handle
(One piece with the legs)
Flip table over
The legs and the side handle are one piece of rod that is bent which acts as a stopper when it opens up to.
The slight chamfer is to ensure that when the legs open, the stopper rod has a bigger area to rest on which makes it have a lower chance of damaging the wood.
Handle to make it easier for children to carry it around.
The handle can be flattened when not in used.
Indentation at the bottom part of the table is to ensure that the legs fit in nicely when closed.
The slight chamfer and round are to ensure that the corner of the wood would not be damaged by the legs when opening or closing.
The whole piece of the aluminium rod is put through the hole in between the thickness of the wood.
1:5 prototype as the aesthetic model.
1:1 cardboard prototype to test the size of the table compared to a 5 - 6 years old kid.
Storyboard to explain how the table's function works.
The client thinks that it is more suitable if the table can be kept at a corner of the classroom than bringing it home.
However, I felt that it still better for them to bring home because they can put their belongings and bring home as a bag so that once they reach home, they can use it to do their homework. This was one of the reasons for making a portable table for the children.