HUB2020 SHAUN PURCELL_QUT_LOCKWOOD 2020 DESIGN COMPETITION_AUGUST 2008 - ASSA ABLOY
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HUB 2020
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Imagine 2020…
Technological advances
Material advances
Space constraints
Time Constraints
The Sustainability Imperative, ecological and social
Consumer culture demands
Increasing technology demands
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008What might we need from our furniture?
Flexible space and space optimisation
Multipurpose facilities and objects
Sustainable materials
Considered energy life-cycles
The ability to recycle and re-use
Integrated technology
Customisation and personalisation
Promoting ownership of generic space
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008How can a door help?
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Tizio lamp www.flickr.com
Ipod www.designicons.harrods.com
Lava lamp www.designicons.harrods.com
Wacom tablet ivory.vnunet.com
Door www.hercules-online.com
Macbook www.slipperybrick.com
Window www.co.lancaster.pa.us
Green Wall www.cathlynnewell.com
TV www.tvsnob.com
Bed www.konteaki-furniture.co.uk
School desk img.alibaba.com
Bench www.kohestan.com
Into one customisable solution?
Gascoigne artwork www.roslynoxley9.com.au
Louvre & Blind img.alibaba.com
Bookshelf www.likecool.com
Cupboard www.lakewoodconferences.com
Cladding www.metroclad.com
Solar panel img.alibaba.com
Clothes horse www.gardentrading.co.uk/
Folding chair furniturestoreblog.com
Bike Rack www.garagetidy.co.uk
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Where can we use the hub?
• The classroom
• Libraries
• Public spaces
• Performance venues
• Retail and restaurants
• Laboratories
• In the home
• Commercial fitouts
• To improve flexibility
in small apartments
• As an alternative to
contemporary cladding
systems
• ……
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008• Let’s not reinvent the wheel. Let’s build on available
technology and hypothesise about some
improvements the next decade might bring.
• View the door itself as a skeletal structure. A gridded
structure. A structure that can supply nutrients (power,
water, data) to other things.
• These nutrients are supplied by an umbilical cord, a
life-giving plug connected to the mothership (the
house, office, factory, shop).
• Nutrients flow on the symplastic path – the path by
which nutrients move from the source to the object in
natural systems via an interconnected cellular web
How does it work?
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008• Take the idea of a moveable wall – an integrated
pivot and slider system. Common, tested,
proven technology. Anticipate lighter, smoother
operation with a decade of progress.
• Integrate the umbilical cord with the pivot
mechanism so that it can be locked in and
switched on by the user during pivot motion, or
unlocked and powered down to slide away
• The door acts as a powered hub, drawing supply
from concealed outlets in the ceiling cavity.
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Nutrient supply
Docking station
Umbilical exposed
Integrated pivot and slide mechanism
UMBILICAL
Umbilical extended
Umbilical retracted
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Door Operation
Umbilical Umbilical
retracted Engaged
Power off Power on
Unlocked Locked
Locking lugs Locking lugs
retracted extended
Ready to pivot and slide Closed and locked
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Locked, Powered
• This is the all singing, all dancing model. Smaller systems can be the size of a
single door, operating on a fixed pivot, track slide or bi-fold system.
• Operation can be manual, partially automated or completely autonomous.
• This skeleton is in for the long haul. We invest our precious resources Unlocked, pivot, still powered
wisely, and ensure the structural integrity of the skeleton for years of
change, manipulation and customisation.
• The bits we clip on – the technology, the customised components, the
furniture, the lighting – we make from recycled components with the object
of eventual re-use, a much shorter timeframe than the skeleton itself.
• What can we clip on? What limits the imagination?
• We start with a grid – a division of standard material components. We can
add components that fit multiples of the grid, or components can sit in front
of the cellular skeleton and fit as an applied skin. Full pivot, power off
• We hold future competitions to design component parts,
options, things that haven’t been thought of yet, or that we
don’t know we need yet.
Fully retracted
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008• The business case looks good. We have a supply of willing designers. We have a supply of willing
consumers. We have a multipurpose skeleton with longevity on its side.
• We have a consumer culture that adores the next new thing and loves to customise space. Small, well
designed, easily customisable components mean relatively small and justifiable costs.
• After the initial investment in the skeleton, owners and occupiers can buy, sell, swap, barter, recycle
and re-use components to make unique objects that fit their own need and their own lifestyles.
Rail Umbilical Cellular Skeleton
+runners structure
Handle + Controls Clip-on panels Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Let’s go shopping
Choose the skeleton
• Choose a skeleton that suits the application
– Internal
– External
–
–
Fire Rated
Acoustically sealed
Choose the size
– Thermally enhanced • Widths and heights are multiples of 600
– Powered by umbilical • The size of cellular structure is modified
– Watered by umbilical to suit the required multiple
– Basic – no umbilical
• Choose the skeleton shape and finish that suits
the application, anticipated technology and
required aesthetic, for example
– Recycled brushed alloy
– Plantation timber
– Recycled plastic
– Translucent sustainable resins, exposing
the nervous system of the skeleton Choose the operating
– Future sustainable, synthetic and
natural materials method
• Fixed end pivot
• Fixed central pivot
• Track slide
• Central pivot and slide for a full movable wall capability
• Choose the level of automation
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Choose Detachable Components
• Digital displays
• Interactive components
• Electronic whiteboards and graphics tablets
• Cellular green walls
• Eco-aspirators
• Folding furniture – desks, chairs, beds, benches
• Small plumbing and sanitary devices – sinks, drinking fountains
• Cupboards and shelves
• Interactive screens
• Solar panels
• Audio and acoustic devices
• Operable windows
• Fixed glazing systems
• Lamps and lighting
• Sun control and shading devices
• Panelised cladding systems
• Retail displays
• Bike racks
• Device Rechargers
• Artwork
• Customisable wall finishes
• None – use the skeleton as a screen
• How many more can we think of?
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008Integrated desks and chairs
Basic skeleton Artwork + Customisation Timber partitions
Operable windows
Extra bedding, storage and lighting
COMPONENT OPTIONS
Recycled metal cladding Green Wall Basic panelled system
As a diagrammatic grid
Lighting solutions Digital wall Vertical Farming
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008PANEL LAYOUT – Complex cells
Shaun Purcell__QUT__Lockwood 2020 Design Competition__August 2008WHAT IF… THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING?
• What if… advances in materials
and technology by 2020 lead to
the ability for intelligent
components, components that
react and adapt?
• Memory fabrics, magnetic
mechanics, metabolic networks,
nano-actuators, digital sensors
and stimuli…
• Let’s attach an intelligent screen
to our hub
• It has the power it needs, and is a
living component connected back
to the management and data
systems of the mothership
• It reacts to the surrounds, the
environment, the mood and
habits of inhabitants
• Shading, screening, growing,
shrinking, adapting, opening,
closing, sculpting, morphing into
new usable objects
A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR ‘DOOR FURNITURE’?
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