Favum - A new storage solution to communal kitchen storage.
The design brief of this assessment is to design a bioinspired product. The honeycomb is a well used and know biomimetic design for storage and has been used in different types of storage. In my design, I have used the honeycomb structure to design a modular storage system for high or low-density living spaces. The idea behind this design, is drawn from kitchen spaces where the most commonly used cooking utensils are stored in drawers and most of the time have to be dug through the drawer to be found.
In the “FAVUM” storage system the most commonly used utensil are taken and put into one compartment of the storage system, they can then lie or stand on the kitchen table top with an open top to better identify the different utensils. When the utensils are being used for cooking the whole “ compartment” can be taken to stand the utensil in so that it doesn’t get contaminated whilst cooking. The whole set of compartments are made from food safe organic clay which is biodegradable so that if there is a chance of breaking the containers the broken pieces can be recycled.
The storage set also includes a spice storage system which also utilises the hexagonal honey comb shape to tessellate, the broken down system splits the traditional honeycomb down to six triangular pieces that can more easily moved around the system. The spice system utilises a touch system to identify the different spices, with each piece of the spice rack having different knobs on the top of the spice jar to differentiate from each other. The storage system is a good solution to high-density living as it provides extra storage space as well as reduces the clutter in drawers/cupboards and tabletops.
This product is amazing, the variety of different functions that all the different containers have, the spice holders in particular with the braille like bumps to indicate which spice it is inside, this gets the user to use their sense of touch which is always good to see in different products.
ReplyDeleteOne improvement that can be made to this product though is perhaps changing the colour of the different containers so that they can be more easily identified.
Lovely idea of the honeycomb and the way you can arrange it in any position it really captures the look of a bee's home.An improvement would be holes for draining excess water.
ReplyDeletei really like the idea and how you could have the containers arranged anyway you like, which will save a lot of space. for improvement i would suggest having some sort of way they can attach to eachother so they wont move around when arranged together
ReplyDeleteI like how it clearly shows ur inspiration and saves space in the kitchen. Also the facts there is many different ways of placing these containers. One improvement would be the colour. Maybe it could have a range of colours so that its unmissable in the kitchen! But overall great design!!
ReplyDeleteYour inspiration is clearly shown in the way the honeycomb pieces tessellate. I also like the addition of the braille letters on the side for assistance. One suggestion however, would to be create a way in which the systems can interlock, and be kept steady on a counter.
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