DESIGN NAME: Free hug sofa
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Sofa
INSPIRATION: Body Pillow Doll
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Free hug sofa is the long arm stretched out resembles humans and looks like saying ‘Come here I will hold you in my arms.’ Because the sofa gives the feeling of being alive, it will hold you warm and soft like your mother, friend, and a lover without feeling lonely. It will present the dream of innocent childhood by giving the feeling of the soft heart of mother or the arms of the doll wrapping around you in your childhood. The cushion was put on the sofa before but this product combined the sofa and the cushion which moves freely. Accordingly, the usability is unlimited for user preference. It can provide a play material to children, a plastic sheet or a laptop pad to teenagers, the convenience of breast-feeding to the mother, the warm stomach to women, and the comfortable back to the elderly.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Free Hugs sofa can be rotated in a direction before and after the couch and is combined with a pair of arms made it possible bending.
Winding a pair of arms with the user sitting inside it to wrap the user's body.
Thereby, the pair of arms surrounding the user's body is effective to provide a sense of security so that the user can take a comfortable rest.
Further, it is possible to raise the user's arm on a pair of arms that surround the user's body. Therefore the user can prevent an unnatural posture reliably view the book.
In addition, you can. Do not combine with sofa
As a result, transport and storage is easy, space utilization is high.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in April 2012 in seoul and finished in August 2014 in seoul.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: It helps users who have physical conditions such as disabled people or pregnant ladies to maintain a stable life and provides fun to children while getting rid of inconveniences in everyday life. Users can maintain more comfortable posture when staying in the living room or reading.
Arm part becomes a cushion.
Users can freely move the arm part forward to make it as a cushion. Also back part can become a cushion. Users can seat and lean back by tieing the arm parts together.
Users can place the arm parts on their abdomens to make it comfortable. Users will feel like sofa is cuddling them in this way.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 1120*770*850mm / Fabric.Sponges
TAGS: Comfort, Freely, Pregnant women, Warm arms, ConcentricPlush sofas, body pillow, reading sofa, teddy bear, with mom
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: FREE HUG SOFA consists of a pair of detachable wing-shaped cushions on both sides and they are freely movable front or rear.
A pair of wing-shaped cushions can softly cover or wrap the user’s body while sitting on FREE HUG SOFA, so that the users can feel comfortable, relaxed and it has a restful effect.
And as the users can place one’s arms on the cushions of FREE HUG SOFA, it also functions that the user can read a book in a comfortable sitting position.
Furthermore, it is easy to move or keep anywhere the users want, FREE HUG SOFA makes better use of space.
CHALLENGE: Creating a form like a real person difficulty (form)
Flexible arm material (material)
warm animal, doll like, but practical and washable fabric (material)
ADDED DATE: 2015-03-01 01:16:44
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IMAGE CREDITS: All Image Photographer Lee eun kyoung, 2014.
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