Iron Furniture Design · 2022

Tetris Bookcase

by Fujun Wang

A' Design Award 2022 Iron Winner in Furniture Design
Awarded April 15, 2022
CLIENT: Nanchang University
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About Tetris Bookcase

Tetris is a modular bookcase designed for flexible storage. The bookcase consists of a large frame and a set of small cabinets shaped like the blocks of a tile-matching game. Users remove the small cabinets and rearrange them by shape and colour to compose a personal layout. Each small cabinet can also be taken out and used on its own as a storage box. The bookcase is made of aluminium alloy, a light material with good stiffness, strength, corrosion resistance and weldability. It measures 120.6 by 30.4 by 181.6 centimetres.

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Unique Properties: This is a unique bookcase design. The most different is that it is a DIY bookcase. It is divided into small cabinet and big cabinet two parts. Small cabinets use the semantics of Tetris. Users can put different shapes and color blocks into large cabinets to DIY their own bookcase according to the characteristics. The small cabinet can also be removed as a small storage box.
Dimensions & Packaging: length 120.6cm x Width 30.4 cm x Height 181.6cm
Tags: Bookcase, DIY, Different, Tetris, Beautiful, Assembly
Production Technology: The bookcase is made of aluminum alloy. Aluminum alloy has good stiffness and strength, but also light weight. It has good casting performance and plastic processing performance, good electrical and thermal conductivity, good corrosion resistance and weldability.
Design Challenge: This is an innovative design with a complex internal structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2021 in Milan and finished in February 2022 in that place, and was exhibited in China in February 2022.
Operation Flow: First, when the user starts assembling, remove all the small boxes. Just like Tetris, users can make their own DIY bookcase by matching different shapes and color blocks based on the characteristics. At the same time, the user can also remove the small box as a storage rack to use.
Research: The most common consideration for users to buy bookcases is the amount of storage, the convenience of using (taking books to buy books), the space, the safety (including formaldehyde and stability), and the cost performance.
Inspiration: I got inspiration from the shape of Tetris and designed this bookcase in the shape of it. Nowadays, more and more people like DIY products. The motivation for our design was that it was a free-form bookcase.
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Designer)
Patents: Copyrights belong to Bruce Tao, 2022