3D Printed Modular Storage Boxes

3D printed modular storage boxes with tiled fronts

Our own stacking storage: a set of 3D printed boxes that rearrange by hand, with removable fronts and relief tiles that swap in seconds.

Service

Product Development & Prototyping

What it is

Stacking boxes in single and double widths

How it changes

Rearranged by hand, with no tools or fixings

The fronts

Each takes four relief tiles, each with its own pattern

What we brought

What we can do

We design for FDM from the first sketch

Every box, insert and tile prints on our own machines; the long box prints in two joined halves.

How we look after you

We test it the way you would use it

We stacked, split and restacked the set on camera, and swapped fronts and tiles by hand to prove it.

What you get

Storage that changes with the room

Open shelves where you need reach, tiled fronts where you want pattern, all rearranged by hand without tools.

The brief

Step 1 of 4

Modules: Single boxes and a double-width box
Layout: Stacked or side by side, in any arrangement
Fronts: Removable, with relief tiles that swap by hand
Making: Every part FDM printed in our studio

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we designed modular storage as our own project: boxes that stack in any arrangement, with decorative fronts that can dress any box. Every part had to print on our FDM printers.

Production

Step 2 of 4

We FDM printed every box, front insert and tile in our studio. The double-width box is printed in two halves and joined, and each box carries a number for the test layout.

Nine bare printed boxes stacked on a wooden table before any fronts go on: four along the bottom, two singles and the long double-width box above, two more on top, each with a handwritten number — The printed boxes, stacked and numbered.

Build and assembly

Step 3 of 4

Small magnets set into the parts hold the stack and the tiles in place. A four-petal insert slots into any box front, then four relief tiles press onto its petals, each with a different floral pattern.

Stacking the boxes and fitting the fronts.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

The finished set stands as open shelving with tiled fronts wherever you want them. Any box lifts off the stack, a front comes out by hand, and a single tile pulls off to be swapped for another pattern.

Lifting a box and swapping a tile.

3D printed modular storage boxes with tiled fronts