Product Design / Educational Furniture
Cocolini
Transformable Children’s Furniture
- Year
- 2026
- Context
- Product Design / Educational Furniture
- Project format
- Solo graduation project
- Role
- Researcher, Product Designer, Prototyper
- Skills
- User research, Furniture design, CAD, Prototyping
Case study
Challenge. Response. Result.
Challenge
Many children lack dedicated environments that support autonomy, creativity, and self-directed learning. Traditional furniture often fails to adapt to different educational activities and developmental needs.
Design response
A transformable modular furniture system for children aged 4–7 that integrates workspace, storage, seating, and adaptable configurations inspired by Montessori and Reggio Emilia principles.
Result
The final prototype brings seating, work surface, and storage into one child-scale system, demonstrating the concept through full-size construction and multiple configurations.
What it shows
Cocolini shows a full process: research, definition, modeling, fabrication, and presentation.
An individual final degree project connecting user needs, form, materials, and narrative in a transformable children's furniture system.
Research into children's furniture, safe materials, organic forms, and use experience.
Formal development through sketches, 3D modeling, proportions, and configurations.
Physical prototype in pine wood, using CNC and manual fabrication.
Visual presentation and documentation of the concept, process, and final result.
Available evidence: photographs, renders, sketches, and complete physical prototype.
Flagship process
Cocolini shows how I take a need into a complete physical prototype.
It is my individual final degree project: eight months of research, user definition, formal development, 3D modeling, pine-wood fabrication, and visual documentation.
The strength of the case is the connection between concept, form, materials, use experience, and narrative.
- Context
- Individual final degree project
- Duration
- October 2025 - May 2026
- Evidence
- Photographs, renders, and sketches
- Result
- Complete academic proposal with a physical prototype
01 / Research
Need, user, and references
I started from children's furniture and products, safe materials, organic forms, playful references, and comparable projects to define an educational and functional direction.
02 / Shape
A transformable child-scale system
I worked through sketches, proportions, configurations, 3D modeling, and stability adjustments to integrate work surface, seating, and storage.
03 / Prototype
Pine wood, CNC, and manual fabrication
The physical prototype was resolved in pine wood with CNC-fabricated pieces and manual work; I fabricated and assembled all parts.
04 / Present
Concept, prototype, and documentation
The final delivery brought together concept, visual research, renders, prototype photography, and process documentation to communicate the complete project.
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