Hako

by Winardi Kurniawan

Technical details of the product — featuring assembly and joining features

Adaptability features — allowing the user to build their furniture regarding their needs and space

Material, colour, and textured tile options for endless customisation see video: https://youtu.be/rb6U_GSm6HM

Project Description

The Hako results from an extensive research project into furniture for rented households. The process explored how renting policies, moving operations, and ergonomic difficulties that students and young adults experience contribute to furniture waste and overconsumption. Thus, it reflects the need to adapt and constantly evolve elements for a successful product intervention.

The design allows the shelving unit to adapt and produce multiple pieces of furniture to suit the user’s needs and taste. Questions such as ‘how to involve the user in the whole design process?’ and ‘how can the user feel as if they are designing their own furniture?’ were met with options for customisation. Informed by emotional design and these questions, various materials, colours, and textured tiles are provided for the user to select. The unit is designed to aid creativity and create an emotional bond that could drastically reduce consumption. The technical detail makes those features possible; simple wood joineries and plastic fasteners provide easier moving, packaging, and assembly/disassembly operations.

The unit’s flat-packability allows for seamless customisation and assembly/disassembly operations throughout its lifecycle, making easier maintenance and part replacement as necessary.

Renders displaying the components that are needed to assemble the shelving unit

Hako in context — showing the scale of the product

Bio

As a product designer, Winardi thrives on creating a product to improve people’s quality of life by applying innovative thinking and a human-centred design approach.

Skills acquired during his studies have focused him on flexibility; adapting front-end iterative and technical practicesallows him to move between the fields of design fluidly. Solid practical skills, attention to detail, and aesthetic skill in design provide the ability to transform concepts into captivating products. With passions ranging from product design to fashion and graphic design, he strives to learn new techniques while perfecting old ones in his journey into the creative design world.

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