3T Chair
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Target Groups : Students, recent graduates, and new immigrants. In common : Move frequently, don’t have big furniture, frugal. Problems : Moving involves many packages and the process is always time and energy consuming. Moreover, the tools aiding the moving process aren’t always readily available.
Situation Story & Idea Appearance
So... Tired Takes Time Have many packages...
No money ! Carry packages by themselves.
Desire... I want! I need! I’ll borrow!
X 100...
Tools !!
Students Recent graduates New immigrants.
Move frequently
Will be perfect
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Tools
But...
Not everywhere
Remover Tools unavailabe & No money
Friends Expensive
Busy
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One day... When moving...
Concept & Sketch As chairs are usually the biggest furniture for our target, we started to work on adding another function to the chair. We designed a chair that can be transformed into moving aids. The design process was harder than we expected since both chair and the moving aid it transforms into must be stable and has an ergonomic height.
Founctional Model 3T Chair -Turns into a chair -Turns into a cart -Turn and save space
Simply Turn Lever principle was used to develope our design.We ďŹ gured out that turning the chair helps us to make the fulcrum closer to the middle, then we worked on how to add wheels on the fulcrum and how to hide it while not using, in addition, when it used tas a cart, the height should let user be able to handle comfortably.
As Cart First, press the little button and pull the wheel out.
Secondly, turn the wheel as the the picture shows, it will be locked automatically.
Finally, turn the chair to make the wheels as the fulcrum and use the back to load packages.
Main concept is to help our target group moving.Easy transformation to save energy and time. Able to load up to 135 pounds.
Fold Up After moving, the chair can be folded up to save space in order to put into the car.
Turn the knobs to untie the brackets
Using Diagram
Stable enough to seat on
Comfortable height to hold
Suitable height to move