harsha vardhan r

Harsha Vardhan R — Bangalore, India

Alternative Clothes Cleaner

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Alternative Clothes Cleaner - Electrolux design lab brief: Home appliances for young professionals...
Should an appliance look like one?.....Should it occupy dead space when not in use?.....Can it be multi-dimensional?....
These are the questions i have tried to answer in my exploration....
The end result is a piece of furniture in the PASSIVE state and an appliance in the ACTIVE state....
No one other than the user knows the fact that it is an appliance camouflaged as furniture.

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Questioning the nature of an Appliance - Electrolux design lab brief: Home appliances for young professionals...
Should an appliance look like one?.....Should it occupy dead space when not in use?.....Can it be multi-dimensional?....
These are the questions i have tried to answer in my exploration....
The end result is a piece of furniture in the PASSIVE state and an appliance in the ACTIVE state....
No one other than the user knows the fact that it is an appliance camouflaged as furniture.

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Questioning the nature of an Appliance - Electrolux design lab brief: Home appliances for young professionals...
Should an appliance look like one?.....Should it occupy dead space when not in use?.....Can it be multi-dimensional?....
These are the questions i have tried to answer in my exploration....
The end result is a piece of furniture in the PASSIVE state and an appliance in the ACTIVE state....
No one other than the user knows the fact that it is an appliance camouflaged as furniture.

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Questioning the nature of an Appliance - Clothes are loaded into a mesh as shown
The cleaning process is through a stream of ionized air passing through internal chambers as explained later.
The process thus saves up on water and detergent.
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scenario - Interaction as furniture
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scenario - Interaction as an appliance
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Sectional view - 3 sections...minimal moving parts...
exploring beauty inside and out

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