STUDIO GUBERAN
UPS

Mobilier sous pression (or UPS) is an investigation into the possibilities offered by materials capable of occupying a fraction of their volume, and then reconfiguring themselves without mechanical assembly, applied to the field of furniture design. This research-creation project progresses by iterations, from a broad material research towards focusing on a specific case study, the chair.

In a context of permanent environmental and technological mutations, combined with the growing importance of online commerce, industrial design has to consider a new range of climatic, technical and aesthetic challenges. This attempt explores a possible solution to reducing the furniture industry’s transportation and production impacts. Thinking of objects occupying as little space as possible for a time, allowing flat-packing, is of obvious interest in this regard.

Moreover, the project is also an aesthetic endeavor, exploring new design typologies and solutions in furniture design, generated by a specific set of constraints, such as compressibility, durability, as well as functionality (confort). 

This site presents seating elements’ prototypes, as well as a documentation of each step of the research and creative process, which was conducted by the collective work of 5 established industrial designers over a two year period.

2024 ECAL RESEARCH

In collaboration with Camille Blin, Anthony Guex Julie Richoz & Chris Kabel