In this paper, according to the actual needs of the SOHO group of this special population, combined with information technology in twenty-first Century, digital era background, proposed a new program to solve the SOHO office furniture, office furniture. And the concept of the status quo of SOHO office furniture, furniture, multifunctional office furniture design principles were briefly discussed, and combined with design example of SOHO office furniture multi-functional design method was discussed in this paper.
The present situation of SOHO office furniture
SOHO (small office home office) for "small office, home office, is combined with office space and places home, at home in both life and the office. SOHO's emergence and development thanks to Internet technology is widely used in various fields, computers, printers, fax machines and other office equipment in the home office gradually popular, as a result, the people can be easily at home to complete work. As there are more and more people to join to SOHO at home and abroad, SOHO has become a kind of fashion, but the traditional SOHO office furniture has been difficult to adapt to the SOHO of flexible, elastic, networked home office environment needs.
The concept of multi functional furniture
Multi functional furniture is a kind of modern furniture products, which is based on the original function of the traditional furniture, and it is the re design of the furniture. Four distinctive features of multi - functional furniture different from traditional furniture are: the integration of mechanical and electrical integration technology, the application of computer technology, the application of new materials, and the. A multi functional furniture has at least one of the features.
Multifunctional office furniture design principles
1 functional principles
From the perspective of industrial design, any kind of product can be divided into three levels, namely, the core layer, the physical layer and the extension layer. Core layer is the product functionality and utility; physical layer is consumers to directly view feel that part of, namely, packaging, quality, price, brand, style design and layout features; extending layer is in the provision of products with various services, such as delivery, maintenance, installation, and guarantee companies and distributors of reputation. Any product design should be carried out around the core layer, so SOHO multi-function office furniture design should focus on its function and effectiveness.
2 aesthetic principle
German designer Wolfgang Weiss has said: in the context of the value of its use, to give furniture to the vitality of artistic and cultural values. Multifunctional furniture, especially to pay attention to the artistic expressive force, affinity and appeal, otherwise it will because of increased functionality, from the use of the environment, people feel like cold instrument, equipment or devices, and the lack of furniture taste. Therefore, in the design of furniture should pay attention to its shape, bright color.
3 security principle
Multifunctional office furniture because of its dynamic characteristics, which is different from ordinary furniture, it often needs by some human action to achieve it from a to another function conversion, so its internal structure is more complex, leads to the lack of stability and durability. In particular, the rise of modern intelligent furniture, furniture inside the circuit system, precision devices, machinery and other sports organizations need to be carefully designed to avoid damage to the user.
4 simplicity principle
The essence of design is the service for the people, convenience to people's life. Therefore, method of operation of the product should not design too complex, should implement the principle of "fool", making anyone can in first time understand the product to use.
conceptual design
1 design condition analysis
According to the survey, urban SOHO mostly to the Internet work methods and communication media, they most is art, design or work freelance writer, under tension, high prices of the social background, the economic level of the SOHO and can obtain the space resource is very limited. In view of this situation, design scheme choose a activities in an area of relatively small Huxing, hope that through multi functions of office furniture design, to maximize the efficient use of space, saving land resources and convenient life in Soho.
2 Huxing transformation
After analysis and calculation, living room, office, negotiate room, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and other basic functions of the space to do the layout planning, creative will be the living room, office, negotiate room, bedroom layout in the same space, achieve mastery through a comprehensive study of deformable multifunctional furniture through the four, kitchen, dining room and a bathroom retains the original Huxing layout. Before and after the transformation of the comparison as shown in figure 1:
3 furniture design
The project mainly designed three pieces of multi-functional furniture, they played the role of the core of the SOHO space. Multifunctional office desk, it set office and rest together, usually can meet the needs of SOHO office, after deformation meet sleep, rest demand; the second is the multi function bookcase, it usually used as a normal bookcase, can also be used as a double bed in the deformed; the third is the storage sofa, the lower part of the cushion is storage box, it effectively alleviated the shortage of small Huxing storage space, improve the utilization rate of the space.
(1) multi function desk. Multifunctional office desk set office, the rest of the two functions, a lifting platform, left and right on both sides of the lockers, vertical hidden can flip the bed board is composed of three parts, work bench area for 1870*600, is arranged at the lower part of the elevating device, owners need to rest bed release, can the manual lifting and horizontal lifting device will make mesa to move at the same time always maintain the level of the state, does not make the desktop items fall. Bed plate through the rotating device by vertical rotation in the transverse direction, and by the installation on the lockers at the inner side of the support member and the rotary shaft bearing load of a human.
(2) multifunctional bookcase. Multifunctional bookcase set books, rest for one day, can be used as ordinary bookcase, can be used as a bed at night. Multifunctional bookcase points around the sides and on the back of the shelf and a bed plate integrated together, together with the embedded in the external hollow box. The box contains the axis of rotation, rotation of the bedplate through the bookcase can be released into bed.
(3) storage sofa. Storage is the sofa sofa base made of lockers, and the cushion can be made into a folding type, and rest and storage function. It effectively alleviates the shortage of small size storage space and improves the utilization rate of space.
(4) after the transformation of the mode of use of space model. Original Huxing in increased by more than three pieces of furniture, spatial patterns and spatial utilization method is divided into day and night two Bell state, office by day, the pack of folding bed, desk, bookcase, sofa play its function; the night is a rest state, release folding bed, desk, bookcase retracted, open lockers of the sofa, folding clothes and debris. The figure is two minutes of space mode:
After optimization, the space can be saved in a single bed with a 2000mm*1800mm double and of a Zhang 1800mm*900mm area, saving 5.22 square meters of houses in the area, and on this basis, increase the 0.622m3 of storage space.
conclusion
The innovation of this project mainly has the following two points:
(1) furniture can meet the needs of office and daily life at the same time, with dual attributes. It can be transformed from one form into another form, such as a bed and a sofa, a desk and a bed. (2) in the design of furniture to fully consider the space utilization, in order to fold or split in the form of furniture to produce morphological changes, so that it is easy to receive and organize, expand the use of space.
With the advent of the information society, more and more people choose SOHO this has the potential to work. Currently on the market related to the SOHO office furniture variety is single, the same style, design lack of personality, it is difficult to adapt to the needs of consumers. At present, the research work of SOHO furniture design in China is mainly undertaken by several traditional forestry colleges and universities and colleges of art and design. The research mode is mainly from the academic discussion on the form of the graduate student to publish the paper, and not to pay attention to the actual efficiency of the product. The scheme through on SOHO lifestyle and needs analysis, put forward two kinds of furniture combined design ideas, the monomer furniture also has two functions, has solved the problem of SOHO space with limited resources to design for SOHO Furniture products.
(Institute of Arts, Northeastern University)
Biography: Zhu Zhongyuan (1993-), male, undergraduate reading, research direction: environmental design. Fund Project: the ninth batch of Northeastern University (2015) university student innovation and entrepreneurship training program fund number: 150006.