Design Articles

Future Factory

Drinking Water ATM

Sunday, 25 February 2024

H2.O

H2.O is a Water ATM, a format designed to bring technologies used in large water treatment plants, to schools and small communities living with unsafe drinking water. The design is centered around giving this intimidating technology a human face. Product ergonomics have been thought from user as well as assembly and service points of view. Locking mechanisms for critical components make it tamper and vandal proof. H2.O is engineered for a knocked-down and weld-free assembly, giving it modularity, scalability and on-location assembly convenience.

Nikolaos Karintzaidis

Water Purification Facility

Saturday, 24 February 2024

Waterfall Towers

The building transcends location as it reformulates an artificial site that becomes part of a unified natural environment. The limit between the city and nature is defined and intensified by the presence of the dam. Every form relates another, reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature. More particularly in the specific concept, the fusion of landscape and architecture happens with the use of the flow of water as a functional and subsequently an organizational element.

Oval Design Limited

Mobile Cart

Friday, 23 February 2024

Coin Collection

The Coin Collection Program launched by HKMA is a creative solution based on the concept of a mobile bank at your doorstep. Two coin collection carts remodeled from 10-tonnes vehicles equipped with coin counting machines were created by Oval Design to provide coin exchange services to the public free of charge. This is the first of its kinds in the world. The project promotes environmental friendliness through encouraging the public to channel back coins to the circulation system, and incorporates elements of CSR as citizens can donate small change to charity.

Aleksandra Toborowicz

district identity; mural and website

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Radio Zablocie

Website "Attuned to Zablocie" and mural "Radiomural" is a social project aimed at popularizing the cultural and industrial heritage of district Zablocie – a postindustrial and creative part of Krakow, Poland. Website and mural in a form of old radio receiver; an interactive transposition of a retro-radio-receiver's desktop. Retro radio can be regarded as a symbol of the old, industrial district Zablocie, that is famous for the production of "Unitra" radio components in Poland in a communist era. The letters on mural will glow at night. zablocie.info

Leigh & Orange Limited

exhibition centre, and for recycling

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

The Loop

Located inside Devon House and spanning 4,000 sq ft, the project comprises of three main areas: an entry lobby at Devon House which merges into secondly, an experiential corridor and finally the main open display courtyard with recycling facilities. The design uses a limited palette of materials, such as recycled timber veneer, recycled material terrazzo flooring, each of which was carefully selected to tell a story and provide a continuous theme for the visitors.

Zhuang Tian

Multifunctional tent

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Go home

Due to war and poverty and other factors, more and more people become homeless and need help, especially when they need to get through cold winter nights in their cities. Each homeless person wants a home. This design will provide them with some help. It is like a door that everyone can open it, so that people with it will have a warm feeling of entering home. The surface can absorb the solar heat and store heat during the daytime. Then, it begins to heat wanderers’ body and keep the temperature during the night. It will surely make thousands of homeless people feel not cold in this winter.