Press Release
Compact Pro Air Purifier by Sxdesign Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Sxdesign for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning products design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Compact Pro Air Purifier by Sxdesign, designed for Healthlead, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Compact Pro Air Purifier
Compact Pro is an air purifier developed for homes in regions affected by air pollution and low income. The shape of the fan runner was resculpted through systematic optimization, and a square proportion was selected. The change improves performance by 50 percent, uses space better and allows a more compact arrangement of the electronics. A floating table-shaped interaction area with a breathing light forms the visual center. The body is made of ABS by injection molding, with a transparent black acrylic panel. The minimalist, neutral style conveys an inclusive ethos.
About Sxdesign
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
This recognition makes Sxdesign a winner of 8 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design Award
The A' HVAC Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good design in the fields of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to HVAC system designers, industrial designers, HVAC brands and HVAC manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include furnaces, boilers, heat pumps, air conditioners, ventilators and thermostats. The awarded hvac designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/hvac
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/137580
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137580
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137580
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/304255
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Compact Pro Air Purifier
- Function
- Air Purifier
- Category
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing, Electronics & Appliances and Architecture
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Lavender, Dark Slate Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Healthlead
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sxdesign
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137580
Credits
- Team
- Hao Huang, Yingfei Sun, Qian Hao, Haining Jiang, Xu Chen, Rong Zhang, Zhixue Zou and Yaogang Chen
- Image Credits
- Sxdesign
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- After systematic optimization, we resculpted the shape of the fan runner in Compact Pro and determined that a square proportion would be better. This improves the performance by 50% while making better use of space and arranges the electronics more compactly. In design, the floating table-shaped interaction area with breathing light creates the visual center. The various parts are integrated by a high-order surfaces transition surrounded. The minimalist, neutral style conveys an inclusive ethos.
- Inspiration
- People in developing regions are facing issues of low income and air pollution. So designers wanted to create a low cost product with high performance for them. By using computational fluid dynamics, We try to use a systematic method to analyze and optimize the shape of the fan runner, the internal structure, and the overall proportion of the product. Finally, under the condition of controlling the cost, the performance of the product has been significantly improved from the previous generation.
- Research
- After research, We found that some characteristics of the fan such as the spiral opening, worm tongue size, etc. have a strong correlation with performance. But size, proportion, cost, design, etc. will also be affected. Therefore how to determine a balance among these changes is a systemic problem. And to solve this problem requires us to use a systematic approach to organically sort, combine, organize, and analyze all the influencing factors.
- Challenge
- Design team had to maximize the performance and design possibilities within the constraints as cost, aesthetics, etc. This process involves large amounts of combinatorial experimentation. To achieve a better balance also requires us to make various trade-offs. At the same time, to deliver a product like this requires design team to consider the problem from a variety of perspectives such as market, user, function, structure, aesthetics, craftsmanship and so on, which is also a huge challenge.
- Realization and Technology
- White body with grey top. ABS injection molding. Transparent black acrylic interactive panel.
- Operation and Interaction
- After power on, click on the center of the panel to start working. The purifier has three air speeds and four time settings. The red, yellow and green colors of the breathing light are displayed in conjunction with the digital display to show the current air quality. Compact Pro also supports locking and filter replacement instructions. The internal filter can be replaced by removing the front case by holding the grip position.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2021 in Beijing and finished in June 2021 in ShenZhen, China.
- Specifications
- CADR:270m3/h. White body with grey top. Dimensions: 365mm×420mm×160mm.
- Keywords
- air purifier, systematic, compact, cost, performance
