Designers' Open 2008
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FREEDESIGNDOM 2008
ManufRactured EXHIBITION
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CERAMICS AND SOUND EXHIBITION
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008
MAKER FAIRE 2008
Stefan Buchberger, a design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna created a modular fridge unit for the Electrolux Design Lab competition 2008. Designed for people sharing a flat, his concept allows you to keep your part of the fridge clean without having deal with others who may have lesser standards when it comes to hygiene. The real question is can you lock it to keep thieving housemates from raiding your fresh milk supply.
The fridge consists of a base station and up to four stackable modules. The modules allow each individual user to have his or her own refrigerator space and can be customized with various colorful skins as well as with add-ons like a bottle opener or a whiteboard.Handles on the sides of the modules make them easy to transport. "If you move to new flat, you can just transport your module like a suitcase and hook it up to the base station in your new flat," Buchberger explains.
Nine finalists of the Electrolux Design Lab competition 2008. This year's theme was appliances for the i-generation that is three to five years out.
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Comments
This fridge is pretty cool, for sure, and does tackle an issue that many if not most college students, and even office workers, have experienced.
But the idea of a compartmentalized refrigerator has bigger possibilities. Compartmentalizing the refrigerator could significantly reduce energy waste and food spoilage. Combine that with clear windows in the doors to reduce wasted open time, and you take a refrigerator to its next logical evolution.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and seeing this concept has motivated me to set my ideas down in the stone of a blog post. Here it is: http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/refridgerator-dreams/
Love Core77. Keep up the good work!
JB
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Clear windows would allow light through (most likely your intention), but light is a form of heat. You'd probably note an overall loss of efficiency vs opening the door occasionally. Now, put a camera inside, and an LCD on the outside and you might have a perfectly good waste of technology.
This is an awesome idea - additionally, if cost effective, it would allow someone like me, who stockpiles meat and dairy in the freezer, to have more freezer units than fridge ones.
Can't wait to see it roll out!