Modular Storage Furniture with Segmented Backside for Sloping Walls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional storage furniture with vertical back walls is not suitable for rooms with sloping walls, as it leaves unusable space and is inflexible, leading to inefficient use of space and unsightly placement in rooms with knee walls and sloping ceilings.
Innovation Solution
A flexible storage furniture system with an asymmetrical design, featuring a cover plate system, adjustable legs, and sub-units that can be adapted to fit sloping walls and knee walls, using a calculation model and adaptation system to ensure precise fitting and easy assembly, allowing for various configurations and functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional vertical backside furniture is used, then manufacturing is simple and standardized, but space utilization is poor and the furniture is squeezed into the walking area
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture backside is divided into multiple adjustable segments or panels that can be configured at different angles. This segmentation allows the furniture to adapt to various wall slopes while maintaining standardized manufacturing of individual components, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The furniture incorporates adjustable and movable backside elements that can be dynamically reconfigured to match different wall angles. This dynamic capability enables the same furniture design to adapt to various sloping wall configurations without requiring custom manufacturing for each case.
2Shape
If furniture is positioned to meet the sloping wall with the top of the back edge, then the furniture fits the wall geometry, but functional space is reduced and headroom is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture employs an asymmetrical design where the backside panels are positioned at different heights and angles relative to each other. This asymmetric configuration allows the furniture to follow the sloping wall geometry on one side while maintaining adequate headroom and functional space on the other side, resolving the contradiction between shape matching and space utilization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If custom-made furniture is manufactured to fit specific sloping walls, then adaptability is improved, but production time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture design uses universal, standardized components that can be assembled in multiple configurations to fit various wall slopes. This multi-functionality allows a single product line to serve multiple adaptation scenarios, achieving precise fitting without requiring custom manufacturing for each specific wall geometry, thus maintaining high production efficiency.
4Length of stationary object
If the roof slope is lower, then the furniture can be positioned closer to the wall, but the furniture is squeezed further into the room and occupies more walking area
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture utilizes the vertical dimension more effectively by employing adjustable-height legs and variable-angle backside panels. This dimensional flexibility allows the furniture to maintain an optimized horizontal footprint regardless of wall slope, preventing excessive encroachment into the walking area while adapting to lower roof slopes.
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AI summary
The invention is storage furniture for use in buildings with sloping walls. The furniture, utilizing the space under the sloping wall, has been developed for industrial manufacture and prepared for simple and easy assembly and adaptation to the sloping wall by the user himself. The furniture's flexibility against the sloping wall is obtained amongst other by flexible height and depth. The simple adaptation of the furniture to fit the given sloping wall is obtained by prepared cutting lines. The storage furniture is available both as shelving unit, cupboard and dresser. The furniture is suited for placing and use in commonly available housing and in commercial buildings such as schools, offices etc. The furniture's flexibility will cover commonly occurring geometries of knee walls and sloping walls in Denmark and the rest of Europe. Furthermore, the furniture can be installed in the knee wall in a simpler and cheaper version.