Iris van der Heide and Marije van Zwet, members of our team, were quite impressed by the secondary school students’ final presentation of our assignment for them: design a modular cabinet for 3D-printers. They both enjoyed guiding these youngsters throughout the design process.    

Amongst others CLD, a secondary school in Delft, offers a program for students with a higher interest in beta technique, Technasium. Already from their first years at school, these boys and girls have an extra subject Research & Design (O&O in Dutch). Through practical assignments commissioned by real companies, they’ll get ready for their future in technique.

To encourage a new generation of designers, we gladly volunteered to be ‘client’ and challenged four students to develop a modular cabinet for 3D-printers. In our brief, we asked them to think about essential features like positioning and storage of filament spools, modularity in case of several printers and how to reduce excessive noise keeping adequate ventilation.

Their design solutions, presented together with a 1:1 model were beyond our expectation. Congratulations to you all, you did a great job!