
Barendsen, G.W. (Gijs)
Design of adaptable art transport box
At: UTwente
Currently most packaging and transport of Artworks is done very traditionally by creating an exclusive wooden crate for each painting individually. The aim of the project was to design a transport box suitable for housing paintings of different sizes and shapes.
In the end the project resulted in the design of a slide concept. Which keeps the painting contained in between two sliding corner piece with gridded foam on the inside.Furthermore all desired data about the condition of the painting that is: relative humidity, temperature, vibrations encountered and geographic location are collected by sensors in the Box and are transferred to the assigned stakeholders with Lora Wan. They can Access the data through an online monitoring software. Which includes a database and analytical software.
Exam date: 03-06-2020