Press Release
Compact Air Purifier by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xu Chen and Rong Zhang for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning products design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design category for Compact Air Purifier by Xu Chen and Rong Zhang, designed for Healthlead. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Compact Air Purifier
Compact is an air purifier designed for small interiors. The unit delivers a clean air delivery rate of 200 cubic metres per hour within a small volume, so the purifier suits limited living spaces. An innovative air tunnel merges the filter supports, several outer parts and the tunnel into single components, leaving only five main parts. The reduced part count lowers production complexity and cost, making cleaner indoor air more affordable. A curve at the top centre holds a receiver that works with many infrared remote controls. The body is made of injection moulded ABS.
About Xu Chen and Rong Zhang
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
Xu Chen and Rong Zhang is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design Award
The A' HVAC Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good design in the fields of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to HVAC system designers, industrial designers, HVAC brands and HVAC manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include furnaces, boilers, heat pumps, air conditioners, ventilators and thermostats. The awarded hvac designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/hvac
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/123571
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/123571
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!123571
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/304255
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.healthlead.com.cn
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Compact Air Purifier
- Function
- Air Purifier
- Category
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing, Electronics & Appliances and Architecture
- Colors
- Lavender, Silver, Dark Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Healthlead
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xu Chen and Rong Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #123571
Credits
- Team
- Xu Chen, YaoGang Chen, Rong Zhang and ZhiXue Zou
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Compact Air Purifier can blend in multitype of small scale interiors to fit target customer's living condition credit to its 200m3/h CADR into a small volume. Curves at top center reveals a receiver matched with multitype of infrared remote controller, creating an overall visual center. Corner curves and clean design illuminates its elegant impression. It merges various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the air tunnel parts into one. Then, the product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the cost.
- Inspiration
- People in developing regions are facing the situation of low income and air quality issue. So the design team try to create a innovative wind tunnel to reduce manufacture complexity and cost. The design aim to allow massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality. So, we redesigned the structure of the product and merged various parts such as the filter support parts, some appearance parts and the wind tunnel parts into one. Then, this product has only 5 main parts, which greatly reduces the volume and costs.
- Research
- CAP shares external and internal parts and rearranges assembling method through its innovative wind tunnel design, reducing manufacture complexity and cost. Such design enables lower retail prices and allows massive low-income population a chance to improve indoor air quality.
- Challenge
- The challenge comes from design constraints imposed by cost.
- Realization and Technology
- White body with grey top. ABS injection molding.
- Operation and Interaction
- Touch the button on the top of the machine.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2019 in Beijing and finished in March 2020 in ShenZhen, China.
- Specifications
- White body with grey top. Dimensions: 308mm x 153mm x 461mm
- Keywords
- air purifier, purifier, compact, cost, curve
