5 Smart Student Designs That Make for A Smarter Home

Today, we demand everything to be multifunction, space-saving, and smart solutions at home. And These young and emerging student designers reinvent types of furniture that allow you to turn your home into a smarter one at all cost!

"Sway" connects the fun between children with adults

We often separate children's corner from ours since their toys could make the house messy. And this 'sway' allows children and adults to connect and have fun together in the house. 

Sway is a high-quality hand-built toy from natural materials that fit into any interior and leaves space for a playful imagination. Each sway provides two poles that can be safe handles for an in-house see-saw session and comes with the thing that can pause rocking motion.

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Designed by julmal design, sway creates an everlasting balanced connection between the young and old, keeping the whole family fun and happy without the need to be tucked away. 

Hasu for a smarter tea time at home

Many people around the world were adopting the idea of "time for tea". A moment to gather around with families, friends, or loved ones; to sit together on the floor to casually converse while watching outdoor scenery or tv. 

designed by dieter mortelmans, was made to perfecting tea-time in your house. Starting from an abstract and serene structure, the table transforms in time as the tea ritual progresses. Hasu is manufactured using several construction techniques and different types of wood joineries, consisting of solid oak for the body and powder-coated aluminum in the details. Enjoy your tea time, and momentarily disconnect from the hustle-bustle life.

The modular shelving

Slide-to-adapt is a modular shelving system that can be assembled and disassemble easily to fit in different places. The design is made easy, sustainable, and multifunctional to give homeowners the freedom to place these shelves according to their needs and circumstances. 

Designed by mark gombault design studio, Each set of six modules comprises wax-coated high-quality birch plywood frames connected by an aluminum bushing. These modules fit into each other, so hardly any wood is wasted during CNC milling, making the modules easy to store/transport. 

méduse the low-cost honeycomb-like lamp

Meet Méduse, a paper-like lamp that uses a honeycomb structure that can change the direction and brightness of light. The design was inspired by honeycomb blinds' material, which further developed to be a multifunctional lamp that generates kinetic motion. 

designed by lukas bazle, The aim was to develop a lamp for versatile applications, which can nevertheless be produced at low cost. Therefore, the designer avoided expensive special parts and mainly semi-finished products were used. 

"Another kind of storage"

This is called "another kind of storage", hanging with seven oak shelves that are connected with two 32-meter ropes within each of them woven through the whole cupboard. The brass weights below the cupboard are connected to the floor; hence they help it stabilize. 

"The first inspiration came from hanging bridges and how they are kept together with steel cables. Normally furniture is standing by its wooden or steel construction. This cupboard is hanging which gives another perspective-hanging instead of stacking." Explained the designer, jelmer wind on its instagram.

Source @studentdesign