GanDan Bank by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

GanDan Bank by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Bronze in Möbeldesign Competition Category.

BronzeMöbel· 2021

GanDan Bank

by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Möbel Category

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The Design

About GanDan Bank

Dies ist eine handgefertigte Bank, die von der Natur des Spinnens und Kokonierens von Seidenraupen inspiriert ist und sich auf die traditionelle Handwerkskunst der japanischen Präfektur Aomori bezieht, bei der das goldene Teakholzfurnier durch kontinuierliche Kreise und Schichten verschlungen wird und die Schönheit von zeigt Furnierabstufung, um eine perfekte Stromlinienform der Bank zu bilden. Sieht hart aus wie eine Holzbank, hat aber stattdessen ein weiches Sitzgefühl. Ohne Abfall oder Ausschuss bei der Herstellung, was relativ umweltfreundlich ist.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

GanDan Bank ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von GanDan Bank wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. GanDan Bank befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Most of the wooden furniture is mainly made of solid wood, which can only show a soft feeling in the modeling lines, but the entity is hard, and will produce a lot of waste during the production process. GanDan is a handcrafted bench, using veneer as the main expression, inspired by silkworm spinning and cocooning and by enlacing method to windup the shape of a bench, it produces a gradual beauty through continuous winding. It looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity feel when sitting on. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
Dimensions & Packaging: Material: Golden Teak Veneer
Size: Length900mm x Width300mm x Height450mm
Tags: Bench, HandCraft, Golden Teak, Veneer, Enlace, Bunaco, Cocooning
Production Technology: Material: golden teak wood veneer, wood, foam.
Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, foam Wire cutting
Handcraft Technique: Bunaco wrapping and enlacing veneer ribbon, manual polish.
Design Challenge: BUNACO's traditional craftsmanship mainly uses beech wood as the main material, and we have also tried to use sharba wood (that is, plane wood), which is thicker, easy to break, and entangled very hard. The change of shape, how to wind the veneer symmetrically and regularly bothered us. We found the golden teak veneer by chance and found that the gloss and softness of it were the most appropriate.
Research: Taiwan’s woodworking craftsmanship has a long history. In recent years, with the advancement of the technology industry, most of the demand for wooden furniture on the market has been produced in large quantities by industrial machine processing methods. Handmade furniture is gradually being replaced, and the value of hand-made woodworking crafts has gradually been lost. The masses ignore. Taking BUNACO as the research theme, I hope that wooden furniture can be presented in the most gentle way, and find this traditional craft technique originated from Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Inspiration: Inspired by the silkworm spinning and cocooning, with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, take shape by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer. Continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2020 in Taiwan , completed in February 2021, first debut in March and will exhibit in Young Designers’ Exhibition in World Trade Center, May 2021.
Operation Flow: Taking shape of the bench by wrapping and enlacing wood veneer in Bunaco style, with foam inside the cocoon sphere, it looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity when sitting. Since the production procedure is wrapping and enlacing with wood veneer, no waste or scrap of wood produced.
Team Members: Instructor:ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChenYu Shih
Designer:ShinChi Yang
Designer:BoCheng Guo
Designer:JieYi Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Dept.
Image Credits: Photo Credit:
ChenYu Shih
ShinChi Yang
BoCheng Guo
JieYi Chen