Seven Wind Chime by So Koizumi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
SilverFurniture· 2023
Seven Wind Chime
by So Koizumi
Client: So Koizumi Design
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Seven Wind Chime
Seven is a wind chime with a new structure utilizing Tensegrity structure. In the unstable social climate of recent years, people are constantly moving between stability and anxiety. The Tensegrity structure is the structure that embodies current society. It appears to be floating and stable, but external forces such as wind cause it to sway in order to maintain equilibrium. By converting this swaying into sound, it resonates through space and adds healing and color to daily life.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Seven Wind Chime is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Seven Wind Chime is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Seven Wind Chime is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Multidisciplinary Design Studio for Objects, Products and Spaces
We transform concepts into tangible experiences through thoughtful design across furniture, objects, products and spatial environments. Our Tokyo-based studio, recognized with the prestigious A' Design Award, brings philosophical depth and experimental rigor to every project, creating forms that resonate with contemporary life.
Discuss Your ProjectInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
In the unstable social situation of recent years, people and society are constantly moving back and forth between stability and anxiety, living in a state of drifting between joy and sorrow, and the theme was "between stability and anxiety". The tensegrity structure is a structure that wanders between stability and instability, just as it embodies today's society, and we believe that there is something in between that moves people's emotions.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
One is that it is a wind chime with a new structure, so I had to sublimate it into a form that was unique to me.
The other is that this wind chime stands on its own with a very delicate balance, so every component required precise technical skills.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would like to exhibit first in Tokyo and then abroad.
Grand Interview
Your innovative use of the Tensegrity structure in Seven Wind Chime beautifully captures the balance between stability and anxiety in contemporary society - could you elaborate on how this structural concept evolved during your design process?
The concept itself remained consistent from the initial stages through to completion.In the early stages of planning, I was not using a tensegrity structure and was wondering if I could express the emotions I felt in response to the social context at the time.When I discovered that a tensegrity structure could materialize these emotions, the concept was solidified, and the project began.
The delicate brass components of Seven Wind Chime required exceptional precision craftsmanship from Takaoka's metalworking artisans - how did collaborating with these specialists influence the final realization of your vision?
This wind chime would not have been completed without their technical expertise.I believe it is a design made possible because I trusted their delicate craftsmanship and experience.
Seven Wind Chime appears to float while maintaining perfect equilibrium - what inspired you to translate this physical paradox into an instrument that creates sound through its own movement?
It all began when I realized, while creating a model of the tensegrity structure, that it generated more "sway" than I had expected.When I wondered if I could transform this seemingly unstable "sway" into something positive, the idea of a wind chime came to mind.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Seven is a wind chime with a new structure utilizing tensegrity structure.
In the unstable social climate of recent years, people are constantly moving between stability and anxiety.
The tensegrity structure is the structure that embodies current society.
it appears to be floating and stable, but external forces such as wind cause it to sway in order to maintain equilibrium.
By converting this swaying into sound, it resonates through space and adds healing and color to daily life. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width:195φ
Height:215mm - Tags
- wind chime, tensegrity, Between Stability and Anxiety, brass
- Production Technology
- All parts of "Seven" are made of brass, and they are exquisitely balanced.
To maintain the balance, a high level of precision was required.
Therefore, the product was manufactured in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, which is famous for its metalworking.
One of the characteristics of Takaoka's manufacturing is the division of labor.
The production of this product was made possible by the concentration of the technical capabilities of specialists in various fields
such as casting, bending, and welding, including SANOMASA factory, which took overall command of the production this time. - Design Challenge
- One is the study that led to this modeling.
The other is that this wind chime stands on its own with a very delicate balance, so precise technical skill was required for every component. - Research
- First, we looked at everyday situations and clarified concepts from daily observations.
Next, we researched the tensegrity structure that embodied this concept and deepened our understanding through repeated experiments.
Then, he examined hundreds of times the shape of the form that would allow it to function as a wind chime.
Finally, we searched for a company that could accurately manufacture the design, deepened close communication, and completed the project over time. - Inspiration
- This project started as part of an independent project under the theme of "Between stability and anxiety. In the unstable social
climate of recent years, people and society are constantly moving between stability and anxiety.
I believe that the tensegrity structure is a structure that hovers between stability and anxiety, embodying contemporary society, and that there is something. - Project Duration
- The project started in September 2021 and completed in August 2022.
- Operation Flow
- Although the tensegrity structure makes it appear to be stable while floating, external forces such as wind cause it to sway in order to maintain equilibrium.
By converting this swaying into sound, the sound resonates through the space and adds healing and color to daily life. - Image Credits
- So Koizumi
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