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Iron HVAC · 2025

Aquecedor Qualitas Heating Fan

by Felipe Stivalli

  • A' Design Award 2025 in HVAC
  • CLIENT: Qualitas Industria Eletromecanica and DI Design Industrial
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,389
  • Verification code 65B31A05C2 · Verify this award
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About Aquecedor Qualitas Heating Fan

Aquecedor Qualitas is a portable heating fan designed for home and office spaces. The unit combines heating and ventilation in one compact body, measuring 325 millimetres in height and 250 millimetres in both width and length, and weighing 1.2 kilograms. A single rotary button controls the operation, showing green for ventilation only, orange for ventilation with medium heating and red for full heating. An anti fall system and sensors prevent overheating. The curved form is inspired by the movement of air.

About the A' Design Award

Aquecedor Qualitas Heating Fan is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Aquecedor Qualitas Heating Fan is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Aquecedor Qualitas Heating Fan is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

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Unique Properties
The Qualitas Heater was created with the aim of making the customer as comfortable as possible in any environment. This equipment is the best of Qualidas' traditional quality, with an innovative design and maximizing power, without compromising quality and safety. The Qualitas Heater is equipped with an anti-fall system and sensors so that it does not overheat, keeping the environment safe for everyone without losing the beauty of a unique design.
Dimensions & Packaging
height 325mm
width 250mm
length 250mm
1,2 kg
Tags
heater, fan, fluidity, beauty, safety, innovation, technology
Production Technology
This equipment was developed/created from simple concepts, the curves of beauty, combining the functionality of a very stable base with all the technology involved in protecting our customers and the efficiency of our ventilation. In this way, we created a unique device, with unique beauty and lots of technology combined with safety.
Design Challenge
The design itself was very challenging and the issue of incorporating innovative security systems contributed greatly to the choices made throughout the project.
Research
For development, we seek to combine functionality with unique characteristics, not seen on the market, highlighting its real value and beauty along with its functionality, robustness and safety. This design seeks to combine all these characteristics, the fluidity of the air, and this state of movement, seeking something beautiful to see.
Inspiration
This equipment was inspired by the simple lines of life, the fluidity of air, the light, gentle warming movement contained in a breeze, a breeze of warm air that envelops and warms.
Project Duration
The project had its concept presented in 1998, and remained in conceptual work until 2022, this stage is due to several changes in the company. In 2022 we started mold manufacturing and in 2024 the production of the same
Operation Flow
This device is the art of its state, its interaction is very simple. not requiring much attention. Having just one on and off button, this equipment is intuitive. When you turn this button, you have the colors green, for ventilation only, orange for ventilation with medium heating and red for total heating. in a simple and very effective way.
Image Credits
photo and video credited to Fapio Peres (collaborator of the company Qualitas)

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