10:1 Compressible Furniture by Christian Hammer Juhl |
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| DESIGN NAME: 10:1 PRIMARY FUNCTION: Compressible Furniture INSPIRATION: The furniture is developed with inspiration in how urbanization in the future makes our living space smaller and how we as individuals has gotten a more nomadic way of living. 10:1 hopes to accommodate these new ways of living by making it easier to move around and allowing a more fluid living space by making it easy to compress and change a rooms function. The property of the furniture also fits our globalized ways of producing and minimized the carbon footprint in the transportation. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 10: 1 is a series of furniture consisting of a sofa, a lounge chair and a stool. The furniture is made from special dense foam that has the material property that it can be compressed down to 10% of the original size under vacuum. Making it more sustainable to transport the furniture from industry to store and easier to move from home to home. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The inside of the furniture is made from dense foam that has a very open structure and consists of a lot of air. By putting them into a special designed vacuum bag and sucking out the air it is possible to compress them down to different sizes and at it’s most down to 10% PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in Eindhoven in Febary 2017 as one of my graduation projects and was shown at the DDW 2017 in October and is hopefully not done yet. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The furniture are realized I collaboration with Recticel a Dutch mattress company, I was allowed to use their machines to cut and shape and assemble the furniture. The Upholstery was done in collaboration with a Dutch upholster called Studio-Stelt where I was helping. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Sofa: Width 180cm Depth: 70 Hight: 70 Chair: Width 80cm Depth: 80cm Hight: 70 Stool: Width: 50 cm Depth: 50cm hight: 45 TAGS: Nomadic, Compressible, Furniture, Sustainable RESEARCH ABSTRACT: 10:1 is a series of furniture that reflects our time. Reflects our news ways of living as urbanization makes our living environment smaller and smaller. Furniture has to follow this development and fit to this new way of living. We not only live on less square meters but our mobility has also increased. The idea of a home is less related to a specific space but increasingly related to the things we surround our self with. 10:1 is an attempt to create a series of furniture that can accommodate these switches in our ways of living and allowing a greater sense of belonging in a rapid changing world. CHALLENGE: The Creative Challenges was as a young and inexperienced designer to work with and making a design that was fitting with the industrial ways of producing both in shape and construction. ADDED DATE: 2018-03-07 08:34:11 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Christian Hammer Juhl IMAGE CREDITS: For the grey industral series of photo it is: Femke Reijerman For the other with the draped curtains it is: my self |
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NAME: Chrsitian Hammer Juhl PROFILE: Christian Hammer Juhl is a recent graduate from the Design Academy Eindhoven. His praxis is a study into how our rapid changing world is influencing the way we live. The result is products that try to translate complex issues on our modern ways of living into tangible playful objects that accommodate and facilitate our modern life style. |
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10:1 Compressible Furniture by Christian Hammer Juhl is Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2017 - 2018.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Christian Hammer Juhl. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Christian Hammer Juhl. |
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