The L.I.M.E. (living in mobile ease) is a personal furniture and transportation tool for young urban nomads. The intent of my design is to help urban nomads simplify their life. 1. To save the cost of moving into a new apartment. 2. For the environment, making the product sustainable will save material and energy. 3. Focusing on how to make the moving process as simple as possible to reduce the amount of physical labor while moving.

It contains multiple functions that help to make the urban nomads’ life easier. This design has four modular parts that allow people to use them as a stool, table, shelf or storage. When the user is going to move out of their apartment, they can assemble the four parts into one. Users can put their bedding and clothes into the L.I.M.E. and move their belongings by rolling the assembled pieces to their new home or destination.

Here are the steps to show how the parts assemble into the “lime”. Users assemble the three seating shells first, so they can put their soft goods inside of the shell. Next they can close the space by assembling the last seating shell onto the center axle. The two o-rings are placed on the outside of the body and the handle goes through the center axle.

Thesis show exhibition at RIT Bevier Gallery, April 19th- May 5th, 2013.

For my thesis exhibition, I produced one full size model, and two sets of 1:5 scale models to demonstrate the use. I Used two mirrors to create the appearance of four seats put together to show the actual size.

1:5 scaled models. One shows the lime used as furniture, the other shows the lime used as a moving tool.