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Award-winning item: Air Conditioner [Cassette Air Conditioner]
Business Owner: Daikin Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Category: Air conditioning appliances
Company: Daikin Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
Award Number: 20G070341
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2020

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Outline: A cassette air conditioner designed to provide optimum comfort through all-round uniform cooling, redefining the air experience for Southeast Asian countries.
Producer: Lim Soon Kiong, General Manager, Daikin Research & Development Malaysia
Director: Kouichirou Seki, Group Leader, Advanced Design Group, Technology Innovation Center, Daikin Industries Ltd, Hong Boon Chun, Head of Department, Innovation Group, Daikin Research & Development Malaysia
Designer: Nicholas Ee Cao Cin, Industrial Designer, Tan Kok Yeong, Associate Lead Engineer, Innovation Group, Daikin Research & Development Malaysia
Already in service/use: 2021/2

Evaluation

This product has a variety of innovative design features, including a new technique that uses the Coandă effect to create flows of air while ensuring that cold air does not come into direct contact with the body, as well as a design that can be installed without the need for major changes to existing facilities. It would be fair to say that it puts into practice the user-centered design concept of providing a larger number of people with a comfortable cooling experience. While incorporating these elements, the designer has also succeeded in creating a simple, emblematic form. And that is why it was praised as achieving a high overall standard of design.