shutter up
Lasalle College of the Arts | 2018
Co-working spaces have been gaining popularity giving freelancers and small teams the ability to work in a professional environment. These spaces tend to give a sense of community, motivating one as they are surrounded with goal-oriented and high-achieving professionals. However, such spaces also intrude on one’s privacy.
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Shutter-up is a modular screen that can easily be installed in any co-working space. These shutters are sound proof and can be pulled up when required, giving the ability to seclude individual workers or a team that is working together.
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Material: Wood + Plastic
Size: 53” x 6” x 25”
areas
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
methods used
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User Analysis
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Research
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Ideation
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Prototyping
tools
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Rhinoceros 6
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Keyshot
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3D Printing
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Table saw
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Adobe Illustrator
project brief
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To research and find scenarios that require screens for either sound-proofing, privacy, or division and design one using motors, gears, or manual kinetics.
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Material Constraints: 80% of the product must be wood
context
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Screens meant to segregate tables in co-working spaces and classrooms - providing privacy and sound-proofing.
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The screen can be pulled up using the string
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The screens are modular - the can divide one, two or three tables in case there are multiple people of startups working on one table.
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The panels are made of acoustic plywood for sound-proofing.
process documentation
