Company Grohe

Project Grohe Digital Collection

Project team In-house

This wireless controller has been created with a hybrid interface to aid the transition from mechanical to digital. Simply turn the product on, twist the outer ring to increase water flow and press the plus or minus button to increase or decrease the temperature.

For enhanced safety and comfort, an LED ring gives instant visual feedback on the water temperature. The outer ring of the controller features Grohe ProGrip, a textured surface which emphasises the point of interaction and acts as a reassuring grip for wet hands. The simple aesthetic is based on a series of concentric circles, which frame the areas of interaction and guide the user intuitively.

Grohe Digital comprises two compact wireless digital modules: the controller and the three-way diverter, which allows users to switch between a variety of draw-off points. For example in the shower; the head shower, hand shower or body sprays can be selected at the touch of a button.

The wireless controller for the basin, bidet, bath and shower can be placed in any position and on any surface. For convenience and performance, energy-efficient electronics and product features result in a battery lifetime of three years.

 

Company Gira Giersiepen

Project Gira RDS flush-mounted radio

Project leader Phoenix Design

Project team Mr Schoenherr, Mr Feustel

The Gira RDS flush-mounted radio is attached to the wall and eliminates the need for cables, keeping work surfaces and counters free. Its capacitive sensor field and the high-quality display for information and stationspecific data make the intuitive operation especially easy.

 

Company Grohe

Project Eurocube Collection

Project team In-house

Engineered to offer an extensive choice of faucets featuring true square design for the basin, bidet, shower and bath. Across the range, cut-out detailing on the lever handles reduces the perceived volume of each piece, while highlighting the minimalist appeal of the collection.

 

Company Grohe

Project Veris Collection

Project team In-house

The Veris collection adheres to the Grohe 'Sensual Minimalism' philosophy, which defines the fusion of simplicity with emotion. Veris features the Grohe 'Joy lever', which is set at an incline and increases the aperture between the handle and body, ensuring the hand has greater freedom to connect to the lever.

 

Company James Law Cybertecture

Project Cybertecture Mirror

Project leader James Law

Project team Feisal Noor, Chi Wai Liu, Tou Leong, Ben Fong, Kevin Lau, Kevin Lo

The world's first intelligent mirror and interactive device, which promotes attention to and responsibility for monitoring one's health. As a reflective window into a digital life, the mirror also displays time, weather, news, social media, TV programmes while measuring and storing users' health data.

 

Company 84000 Communications

Project Impermanence

Project leader anothermountainman (Stanley Wong)

An innovative approach to recycling and reducing waste material, this sofa is also a bed, and can eventually be converted into a coffin to carry the owner on the journey to his final destination after death.

 

Company Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Project Mongolian Bao

Project leader Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu

Project team Brian Lo, Zhaoyun, Alex Zuntini

Commissioned by Chinese singer and artist Dadawa to design an object derived from vernacular Chinese artisan handicrafts, this is a contemporary interpretation of the Mongolian bao and saddle, combining details found in traditional craftsmanship to create a functional and beautiful piece of furniture.

 

Company SLHO & Associates

Project Assembled Topology

Project leader Douglas Ho

Project team Kenneth Tsang

These modular units are inspired by nature and constructed of fibreglass with an internal steel frame. The exterior is finished in EPDM, a recyclable material normally used for playground flooring, which is porous in nature and therefore warm to touch in the winter and able to cool down fast in the summer.

 

Company Grohe

Project K7 Kitchen System

Project team In-house

K7 is a comprehensive modular collection for the kitchen, consisting of seven main components which can be brought together in varying configurations. From this modular pallet more than 10 product systems can be created.

 

Company Public Design Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Green Bin

Project leader Professor Kin Wai Michael Siu

Project team Paul Lo Chi Hang, Ken Li, Poon Kei Engineering

Many contemporary Asian cities - including Hong Kong - are increasingly including sustainability and environmental protection as key policy issues. Governments have thus introduced recycling bins, but most feature designs which do not adapt well to urban needs, and also not environmentally friendly.

The Green Bin aims to overcome the deficiencies in sustainability of existing recycling bins. Made of stainless steel, the Green Bin has a longer product life compared with existing plastic bins. Its high-contrast colours and specially-designed form fit both functional and aesthetic needs, drawing people's attention and also suitable for the visually-impaired.

The Green Bin offers flexibility for modification to meet regulations in different cities. It can easily be located in different public places such as shopping malls, lobbies of public or private estates, schools and so on.

Constructed using minimum materials, the Green Bin is easy to produce and maintain, offering recycling options at the end of its lifespan and able to stand up to strong winds and rains. It is also cheaper to produce than the existing plastic bin design, as well as being far more stable.

Ergonomically, it is a universal and inclusive design for different user groups, including wheelchair users and children.

 

Company 84000 Communications

Project Impermanence

Project leader anothermountainman (Stanley Wong)

An innovative approach to recycling and reducing waste material, this sofa is also a bed, and can eventually be converted into a coffin to carry the owner on the journey to his final destination after death.

 

Company Goodss

Project Go Recycling Bin

Project leader Catherine Mui

Project team Gary Tam, Ken Kwok

Intending to revolutionise the recycling industry and make it consumerfriendly, the idea of the Go bin is to make recycling fun. The compartments are topped with sculptures of a bottle, tin can and carton as a universal language, designed to be easily recognisable without differentiating by words or colours.

 

Company Optiled

Project CabLED

Project team In-house

CabLED can be used indoors, outdoors and even underwater to create brilliant lighting in areas that could never be illuminated before without extensive retooling costs or complex installation procedures.

CabLED is a combination of cable and wire with patented technology (US Design Patent D635 930 S), and is the only linear LED lighting solution that not only provides a supremely flexible and versatile lighting strip, but also an easy-to-fit and cost-efficient installation process with an exceptional overall lighting performance that is both reliable and longlasting. It has an average life time of up to 35,000 hours - three times longer than conventional fluorescent tubes.

CabLED uses a unique manufacturing process which can generate lighting sections up to 50m in length, rare in the market. It is also flexible, so it can be used to replace any T8 or T5 florescent tube for general lighting, cove and contour lighting, light box, cabinets or any situations where mounting a normal lighting fixture would be extremely difficult.

CabLED is also a unique breakthrough in LED lighting in that the customer can cut and re-connect the CabLED themselves, using the wide variety of mounting options and accessories.

 

Company Channels Design

Project Motley Light

Project leader Motley Light

Project team Channels Studio

A series of three floor lamps which take the form of a lantern on a tall trunk base. Made of wood veneers with a central frosted glass cylinder, the lamps are designed to create ambient lighting effects in contract and domestic interiors.

 

Company Molo

Project Heartfelt Lantern for Japan

Project leader Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen

Project team Molo

The Heartfelt Lantern for Japan is a hand-painted portable luminary with a removable, energy-efficient LED glowing through a delicate pattern of translucent fibres. All proceeds from the sold-out edition were donated to Architecture for Humanity's relief efforts following the 2011 earthquake in Japan.

 

Company Molo

Project Cloud Softlight Mobile

Project leader Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen

Project team Molo

This mobile is a cluster of luminous clouds that can be suspended from a single point, providing light and moving with a gentle buoyancy in the air currents overhead. Cloud Softlight Mobile has a hollow honeycomb structure internally lit by LED.

 

Company TiRon Interior Architecture

Project Sculptor of Light

Project leader Timothy Cheng

Project team Pip Chan, Haze Chan, Amy Kuo

Inspired by Japanese architect Tadao Ando's early principle 'wall as the sculptor of light', this multi-functional lamp achieves a balance between practicality and beauty, with the abstract form encouraging people to rethink space and time.