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Dessert collection living room furniture
The core of research is "the relationship between furniture design and users' emotional needs". Explore how to design to meet emotional needs, make furniture become the carrier of emotional sustenance.
TOOLS：Rhino, Keyshot, PS
TIME：November-December 2024
Source：Furniture Styling Design coursework
Instructor：Wan Hui
The "2024 Urban Youth Home Report" shows that 62% of people prefer to "hide in the bedroom" after going home, and the living room is reduced to "social props".
In the era of "breakaway" and "multi-functional furniture", I find a paradox: Young people are both eager to "lie flat and free", and are kidnapped by the "efficient design" of furniture - the shape-shifting sofa always makes you feel that "something should be done", and the foldable sides suggest that "the space should be restored to cleanliness at any time".
My design began with a question: Why can't furniture, like a dessert, make you want to let down your guard when you approach it?"
Challenge
How to design a set of "anti-efficiency" furniture so that "doing nothing" becomes justified?
Young people show a significant preference for soft, rounded visual and tactile elements that relieve muscle tension and activate sensory pleasure
Most people want to be separated from the sense of normality of the work scene, and the use of functional furniture (such as standard sitting, fixed use) ignores their need to relax their emotional state
I kept using sketches to find the closest carrier
Physical level:
The design combines macarons, doughnuts, ice cream and bread. The overall shape of the furniture is mainly curved and rounded, imitating the soft shape of desserts. Soft fabrics are used as the covering material of the furniture to strengthen the wrapping and friendliness of the vision and use.
Psychological level:
With light milk coffee as the main color, it is separated from the high-stimulation environment (cold light) of the work scene to relieve visual pressure.
Reduce the height of the sitting surface and weaken the structural features of the furniture, so that users can naturally enter a relaxed state in the "purposeless use".
THE WHY:
Visual attraction: circular shape and soft color matching trigger the initial psychological expectation of "safety and comfort"
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Body testing: The low sitting surface encourages attempts at non-standard sitting positions such as squats, and the non-preset sitting surface/micro-curved backrest allows for free adjustment of the fit Angle
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Behavioral immersion: The structural ambiguity makes users give up "functional judgment" and focus on the interaction between the body and the furniture (such as arbitrarily changing the lying position and supporting with the back sensory surface)
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Mental relaxation: disengaging from the pressure of "must be efficient/used correctly" and turning attention to inner feelings (muscle relaxation) in a purposeless change of posture
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