Origami Router Design

Origami Router Design

This was my final project for a Product Design course during my master’s. The idea was to redesign the housing of your normal Wi-Fi Router improving a certain problem in the existing design.

The Problem

When you look at the normal router housing, they have a clean design (most of them) but if you actually take a look at what’s inside the router, you’ll be surprised to see how small the entire circuit board inside it is. I asked myself why have such a big housing including the entire packaging of the box itself for something that’s this small? This is where I decided to come up with a housing that can work both as the packaging as well as the design of the router itself.

Solution

Use the folding techniques of Origami to reduce the entire experience of getting a router, unboxing it, and using it into one small envelope. This envelope contains the circuit board for the router and by following a quick guide you can fold the envelope to make it into the housing of the router itself (as you can see in the images on the right/below depending on the device).