Comfor:t:able

Creator

Buchbinder, Mathis

Title

Comfor:t:able

Subject

Design practice --Design -- Exhibitions

Graduate students

Date Created

2020-09-18

Relation

PolyU Design Degree Show 2020: Profile Cards

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2020MDDPD06P001

ASSD2020MDDPD06P002

ASSD2020MDDPD06P003

ASSD2020MDDPD06P004

ASSD2020MDDPD06P005

Is Part Of

MDes (Design Practices)

Description

Hong Kong has more than 90.000 families living in subdivided units (SDU), single room 10 square meter apartments. They are shared on average by 3 people with little to no privacy. Among them are over 37.000 elementary school children between the age of 6 to 13 years. For their daily studies they have to utilize their environment with all its limitations. This leads to ergonomical compromises, such as no back support, too low sitting surfaces, too high table plates or crouched corner positions. Comfor:t:able is set up in a way to transform formerly unused space in a better way. The chair can be used as a neck and kneeling pillow when it's not in use and the differently sized cushions allow adjustments to childrens growth. The table element has two configurations, a sociable small tea table which can be positioned on the bed between two people for leisure activities, and secondly a study table that tucks half away under the bed, occupying less room into the public space.

Collection

PolyU Design Degree Show 2020