Sehun Oh

There are diverse ways to achieve sustainable design. Using low-impact materials such as recycled or biodegradable materials is one typical way to make things sustainable. However, I would like to take a more structural approach to thinking about sustainable design. I am looking into the flexibility of products as a method of being sustainable. If a product can change and be adjusted to the user’s variable situations along their lifecycle, it can be used for longer. Also if a product is easy to maintain or upgrade, people will use the product for longer, instead of replacing the whole product. I think making products last longer both physically and emotionally is a fundamental way to make products sustainable. As one solution, I designed modular components that can be used to build various types of furniture such as a shelf, a table or even a chair. People can expand their shelves, modify a chair into a children's high chair or they even can transform a table into a shelf by adding some components in this modular system, just like building with LEGO.