A modular fridge won Electrolux's Design Lab 2008

Stefan Buchberger, from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, has been chosen winner for inventing Flatshare. Flatshare is a modular fridge with individual compartments for people who live with several roommates.

 Flatshare consists of a base station
and up to four stackable modules. The modules allow each individual
user to have his or her own refrigerator space and can be customized
with various colorful skins, as well as with add-ons like a bottle
opener. Handles mounted on the side make it easy to transport the
modules.

College students, grad students and
young professionals often share living spaces… and kitchens. With
Flatshare, never again will they have to endure another person's
moldy cheese or old leftovers.

"I got the idea to create the
Flatshare fridge because in many shared flats there is a problem with
the refrigerator," says Buchberger. "It gets filthy because
no one person feels responsible for cleaning it."

The Design Lab 2008 award is a prize of
approximately 5,000 euros and a six-month internship at one of
Electrolux global design centers.

The award for second place went to
iBasket by Guopeng Liang from Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Third place went to Coox by Antoine Lebrun from L'Ecole de Design
Nantes Atlantique.