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X-Space Window by The School of Industrial Design in LAFA Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Social Design
The School of Industrial Design in LAFA acknowledged for social design by the international grand jury of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2017 /DesignNewswire/ X-Space Window by The School of Industrial Design in LAFA, designed for LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Social Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2016 - 2017 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About X-Space Window
X-Space is a fire escape window designed for residential rooms where the passageway may be blocked during a fire. The design is a redesign of the window frame with a rotational structure holder made of five parts that interact by mechanical principles. Turning the handle 180 degrees anticlockwise triggers the alarm and notifies firefighters. Opening the window then forms a space outside the wall. A fire resisting shutter hidden in the holder axis is pulled out to isolate fire and smoke while people wait for rescue.
About The School of Industrial Design in LAFA
DU HELI Curriculum vitae From Oct 2012 to June 2016, as an undergraduate student in The School of Industrial Design in LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, major in Industrial Design. Form Oct 2016 to June 2019, as a postgraduate student in The School of Industrial Design in LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, major in Industrial Design. From July 2019 to now, employed as professoriat in The School of Industrial Design in LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, the research area is Public Product. Main works ·Dynamic Traffic Cone has won the Bronze A’ design Award in Vehicle,Mobility and Transportation Design Category in 2015-2016 period.
Award Record
This recognition makes The School of Industrial Design in LAFA a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Social Design Award
The A' Social Design Award is an international design competition recognizing excellence in social design by social impact designers and think-tanks worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to social designers, social brands, social manufacturers and social design professionals from all countries. Entries typically include community projects, social campaigns, public installations, educational programs, sustainable initiatives and healthcare solutions. Awarded social designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/social
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/54372
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/54372
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!54372
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/155641
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- X-Space Window
- Function
- Window
- Category
- Social Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Social Impact
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Maroon and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- The School of Industrial Design in LAFA
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2016 - 2017
- Design ID
- #54372
Credits
- Team
- Xue Wenkai, Sun Jian, Jiang Meihan, Zhou Xiaozhu and Du Heli
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- X-Space is redesign of the window frame including rotational structure holder. When it is opening, the automatic alarm will send a notice to fireman and the rotated holder combine with the outer wall will constitute a safety space isolated the fire and smoke. When fire coming up, all family members can easily get out of the fire through the X-Space avoiding the injury from the fire and smoke behind the outer wall. On ordinary days, X-Space is just look like an unique window frame outside.
- Inspiration
- By considering those circumstance always appearance in fire accident like passageway has been blocked so that the person inside the room cannot escape the scene of a fire immediately. To offer a better solution for trapped person get away form the fire quickly, we find the point in window frame redesign. We offer you X-Space, a redesign of window frame, the quickly way to get away from the fire and smoke.
- Research
- In some kinds of situations of the fire that passageway has been blocked in accident. No matter what you do, you cannot escape from the fire through the door. Once fire coming up, the dark smoke billows on it’s heels. According to the data, as long as you get away from the fire in 3 minutes, the chance you will alive are occupied the certain proportion. Thus, we try to find a appropriate way in product design which can make people get away from the fire immediately. Finally, we find our point in window frame redesign.
- Challenge
- The challenge of our design is that we cannot find a suitable material in smoke control and thermal isolated. After a number of tests in the selection of materials, we finally find the proper material which achieves the desired effect.
- Realization and Technology
- Our project is kind of model combination design, combine with 5 holder parts. All holder interacting by mechanical principal with each other.
- Operation and Interaction
- In usual days, when you want to open your window, turn the handle into 90 degrees anti-clockwise. When fire coming up, turn the handle into 180 degrees anti-clockwise to trigger the fire alarm. As this time, if you open the window, all holder interacting by mechanical principal with each other are relevant with it. After all family members come into the X-Space waiting for rescued, you should pull out the fire resisting shutter which is hidden in the holder axis to cover the window position therefore it will constitute a safety space isolated the fire and smoke.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2016 in LAFA Communal Facility Design Studio and finished in February 2017 in National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Industrial Design in LAFA.
- Specifications
- Close type:Width 1270mm x Depth 604mm x Height 1850mm Open type:Width 2260mm x Depth 1570mm x Height 1850mm
- Keywords
- Escape, Rescued, Fire, Security, Protection
