DESIGN NAME: Oh rocking furniture
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Multi-Functional Furniture
INSPIRATION: We imagined the multi-functional furniture that can be used in a daily life, a child entertainment, and a child education for both parents and children.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Designed for children and adults, ‘Rocking furniture’ is multi-functional furniture with some ideas for child education. In early childhood, children learn from various actions and games. ‘Rocking furniture’ is designed with an intention to bring some diverse experiences to children with a single piece of furniture. Each of ‘Rocking Furniture’ can be used as a chair, a cradle, a playground bridge, a secret playground for children and a rocking horse. And also, it can be used as a round table when three of them are connected. By using ‘rocking furniture’ with various purposes, children can develop their curiosity, enquiring mind, and spirit of discovery. Not only focused on multi-functional design for children, our team also considered about the convenience of parental users of ‘Rocking furniture’. We tried to design the height of furniture suitable for the adult to sit on and talk with their kid
We provide package options of Characters (Horse, Sheep, Dog, Killing Whale, Penguin) so that children can choose their favorites.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: -
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: This project went off from December 2014 to January 2015 in Korea. The product was donated to the Seoul Child Care Center.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: 100% white birch, natural paints, CNC applied.
Simple process, general wood, character stickers
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Set Dimension: 1000 * 1000 * 450 mm
Dimension: 890 * 400 * 450 mm
TAGS: toy, rocking, cradle, table, character, chair, baby, child, adult, shelf, plaything
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: We endeavor to design the special furniture for parents who raise the children in early childhood.The project was started from the need of special toys for kids in child care center. Even though there was an enough place for kids, the center lacks the adequate toys and play environment. We decided to use our imagination and design skills to help the kids go through the various experiences by ‘Rocking furniture’. Inspired from rocking horse, we tried to combine the fun toys with practical furniture like chair and table. We hope this ‘Rocking furniture’ can provide special experience to both children and adults.
CHALLENGE: During the project, we were eager to create the furniture with various functions with a simple and solid design.
ADDED DATE: 2015-02-27 21:11:19
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Namgyun Kim, and Kinam Hwang
IMAGE CREDITS: Kim-Namgyun & hwang-Kinam, 2014.
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