Design Studio 4 - Project 1

Design Studio 4 - Project 1

Furniture Design for Elderly

The first project for Semester 4 is more to industrial design. We have to form a group of  2 to 3 to design a furniture for a client who is elderly. Before we started designing the furniture, the whole group of tutorial of us have to visit a elderly home and find our own client.

Hence we found a elderly home call Noble Home Care Elderly Home. This is the elderly that consist about 20 elderly. The amosphere is surroundded by chirpping of birds and full of greens considered as a good environment. At the first visit of elederly home, we find a elderly to interview, to ask about what elderly actually desire to have in elderly home or what kind of trouble they met in elderly home. It will give us some idea of designing a furniture to help elderly more.

This is one of the elderly's room, which consist 2~3 elderly to share one room. In my opinion , it is quite crowded for 3 elderly to share one room and one bathroom.

The second time we visited the elderly home, we started to measure the whole elderly rougly.

The purpose of cading the floor plan is for us to indicate the position of the furniture of each in tutorial group. In addition, it may also give us some ideas of layout planning for out final project which to design a elderly home.

For submission, we have to design a furniture and request to have a A0 size of presentation board.

Final Presentation Board

”3 As“ Great Team 

Reflection:

In this project, it is different from other usual project that we design. We are given a chance to touch a little bit of industrial design and then we realized every each of great design have its own story and concept behind it. It is not just a normal furniture, people design for the people's needs and desire. It is great to have this whole new project and I have learned how the basic skill of requirement of designing a furniture for our own client.