Furniture System 'TwoToFive'

Can you imagine to live on 20 m² or less? And can you imagine how to furnish this tiny living space? This is a challenge that dwellers of micro apartments face all over the world! New York, London or Shanghai – these are only a few metropolises facing a great housing shortage due to increased urbanization. The solution so far: micro apartments. The so-called ‚apartments‘ are often not bigger than 20 m². Furnishing these living spaces often ends up with expensive tailor made solutions. But that‘s not suitable anymore for our today‘s society where going global and moving a lot is the order of the day. The solution is called „TwoToFive“! Based on a scissor mechanism it offers flexibility as well as personalization for the user. The double layered scissor mechanism enables the user to adjust the system to the given wall space. By placing wooden pins onto the system it can be completed with all kinds of elements. The range of the elements covers basic needs like storing, cooking and relaxing as well as additional functions like wireless charging. „TwoToFive“ uses the entire width and height of the wall thus there is no loss in space. Next to that it can be easily reused in a new apartment as it is independent from the floor plan.

2017

Final Design

How it works

TwoToFive @ Mikser Design Festival 2017

In 2017 TwoToFive took part in the international design competition Ghost Project. The competition takes part annually and this year's theme addressed "New Nomads". We can proudly announce that TwoToFive was among the winners of the competition! As a reward we were able to exhibit TwoToTive at the Mikser Festival 2017 in Belgrade - the biggest design festival in the Balkan region. Additionally we were awarded as one of the three most outstanding projects at the exhibition at the Mikser Festival.

In the following video you can see an impression of the Mikser Design Festival. It's mostly in Serbian, but the part about TwoToFive is in English.

Design Process | Phase 1

The development of TwoToFive started off as my individual project in September 2016. The need to be satisfied was a solution for small space living. After intense user research and market mapping I came up with a design brief and a vision: "Wouldn't it be great if there is a furniture system that meets all your needs and adapt perfectly to your micro apartment, being still changeable at any time? And it even moves with you to the other side of the world?" In the following some impressions of the 'birth' of TwoToFive.

Design Process | Phase 2

After 10 weeks of individual work the first concept of 'TwoToFive' was ready. Now it was time to refine it, work out the details and eventually bring it to life. To do so, I would get support from three of my fellow students - and a transition from individual work to team work. In the upcoming 20 weeks we worked out the details and dived deeper into the material research. Furthermore, we built a first 1:1 prototype and conducted user testing. Finally, after further testing of details and a lot of hours in the workshop, we built a final working prototype, which was presented at the annual Industrial Design Engineering Exposition at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2017. In the following some impressions of the process and of the Industrial Design Engineering Exposition 2017.

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