Press Release
Evren Yazıcı Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Electric Scooter Charging Station - D2 Multifunctional Street Furniture in Street Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Evren Yazıcı for street furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Electric Scooter Charging Station - D2 Multifunctional Street Furniture by Evren Yazıcı, designed for Duckt Ou, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Street Furniture Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Electric Scooter Charging Station - D2 Multifunctional Street Furniture
Electric Scooter Charging Station D2 is a street furniture unit that docks, locks and charges micromobility vehicles. A patented plug and play adapter is fitted to the vehicle, so scooters, bikes and mopeds of different makes can share the same station. When a vehicle is pushed in, the station reads the adapter, ends the ride, locks the vehicle and starts charging in about one second. The body is made of ASTM A36 low carbon steel with a durable powder coating, and the inner mechanism is stainless steel. The unit measures 1000 by 487 by 455 millimetres.
About Evren Yazıcı
I am the Joker. I believe humanity never stop exploring. Thanks to my endless curiosity, I am a designer who specializes in many subjects. I am also an entrepreneur. My goal is to become a serial entrepreneur. Being a designer makes us think differently from many people on many issues. Every designer should make good use of this opportunity. As a designer, I mainly focus on understanding people's psychology at the beginning. We must be able to identify and design people's future needs at the right time.
Award Record
This recognition makes Evren Yazıcı a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Street and City Furniture Design Award
The A' Street Furniture Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good street furniture designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to street furniture designers, industrial design studios, street furniture brands and street furniture manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include benches, bollards, bus shelters, bicycle racks, litter bins and planters. Awarded street furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/street-furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/118852
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/118852
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!118852
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/300517
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.duckt.app
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Electric Scooter Charging Station - D2 Multifunctional Street Furniture
- Function
- Multifunctional Street Furniture
- Category
- Street Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray, Gray, Teal and Orange
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Duckt Ou
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Evren Yazıcı
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #118852
Credits
- Image Credits
- Main and optional images photographer : Kemal Seçkin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Duckt is a universal charging infrastructure solution, where, you can dock, lock and charge any micromobility vehicle shared or private, regardless of model or make all-in-one unified solution with patented plug and play adapter. Duckt helps cities create new revenue while regulate the shared micromobility space. To use Duckt, all you need to do is to push your vehicle in. In one second, stations recognize your vehicle, end the ride automatically, lock the vehicle and start charging.
- Inspiration
- Micromobility is booming fast, even the term itself has been in Wikipedia since 2017. But last mile solutions are already disrupting urban life. According to McKinsey, in 2030 this industry will become a 365 Billion Euro (400 Billion USD) market with 30 Million new vehicles in our cities. E Bikes, e Mopeds, e Scooters etc., all looking for charging and parking. Duckt believe, as every transportation mode, ever expanding micromobility solutions also need a dedicated infrastructure.
- Research
- With corona and the existing trends micromobility is accelerating. New governmental incentive programs and new dedicated infrastructure is also fueling this trend. Especially a big demand on e-bikes following the cost reduction with high volume productions and technological development is increasing the portion of demand towards bike stations as well. More and more fleet operators are leaving behind the scaling race and moving towards sustainability and efficient unit economics. All these trends are creating a great market timing for our product & services.
- Challenge
- Duckt have 4 key suppliers all inside Turkey. Duckt selected these suppliers from our automotive Tier1 experience. These suppliers deliver the sub-products to our 500 sqm final assembly facility. Duckt quality. Check, final assemble, test, package and store the final products and Duckt ship from our facility. This process is structured with. Our mass production experience and is crucial to our success in having the lowest price in the market yet have 45-50% profit margin in direct sales. All hardware and software is designed inhouse, patented and all trademarks and intellectual property are received from day 1.
- Realization and Technology
- Duckt was produced Astm A36 Low-carbon steel. Also was coated with Jotun Super Durable 2901 Qualicoat Class 2 Powder Coating. This coating has Green Building Certificate. (Leed v4 and Bream) All mechanical system inside the station was produced stainless steel. The locking mechanism has crossed the 250.000 mark and is still under test.
- Operation and Interaction
- There is a simple key & lock relationship. Retrofit our adapters to the vehicles. When a vehicle with DUCKT adapter is pushed into a station: 1.The NFC on the station reads the RFID on the adapter, with this ID, ouR IoT stations communicate to the software provider of that vehicle. 2.Station let the operator know, which vehicle is where in which condition. 3.Station lock the recognized vehicle automatically. 4. End the ride and start charging automatically. All thiS process happens under 1 second.
- Project Duration and Location
- Both in a 12 month(September 2019 - 2020) long PoC pilot in a campus area with an operator and laboratory test. Pilot program helped us improve the durability and design of the product and test the usability, also test outdoor conditions under snow and rain conditions. With the laboratory tests, applied our automotive experience to understand the limits in endurance and strength. The station passed all tests with flying stars and will define new security standards in micromobility.
- Specifications
- Product dimension is: 1000mm X 487mm x 455 mm
- Keywords
- Charging Station, Micromobility, Infrastructure, Dock, Lock, Charge
