Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung by Shanghai Art and Design Academy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Bronze in Spielzeugdesign Competition Category.

BronzeSpielzeug· 2023

Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung

by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Client: Shanghai Art and Design Academy

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Spielzeug Category

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The Design

About Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung

Concave-Convex ist ein Satz Holzbauklötze für Kleinkinder. Das Set umfasst 211 Teile, die von der traditionellen chinesischen Zapfen-und-Schlitz-Konstruktion abgeleitet und auf 30 Verbindungstypen wie die quadratische Schwalbenschwanzverbindung und den T-förmigen Zapfen vereinfacht wurden. Die Zapfen bestehen aus dunklem Schwarznussholz, die Schlitzteile aus hellem Buchenholz, sodass sich die beiden Komponenten anhand der Farbe unterscheiden lassen. Die Klötze werden mit Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen gefräst und von Hand endbearbeitet. Drei Schwierigkeitsstufen eignen sich für Kinder von 18 Monaten bis über sechs Jahren – vom Zusammenfügen einzelner Verbindungen bis zum Bau großer Szenerien.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung 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 Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung 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. Concave-Convex Bauklötze mit Zapfen- und Schlitzverbindung befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The tenon and mortise building blocks are 211 pieces in total, extracted from the traditional Chinese tenon and mortise structure and simplified into 30 simple tenons and mortises (such as square dovetail, T-shaped tenon, etc.) suitable for young children to play. The tenon and mortise are made of dark black walnut wood and light beech wood, respectively. In the process of finding partners for each tenon, children can learn the wisdom of the ancients.
Dimensions & Packaging: Package size: 220mm*195mm*280mm,
Material: Beech, Black Walnut
Tags: Traditional culture, mortise and tenon structure, educational toys, preschool children
Production Technology: Woodworking machine carving and manual detail processing
Design Challenge: This toy has high requirements for the accuracy of mortise and tenon joint clearance. The joint between mortise and tenon cannot be too loose or too tight. The manual polishing process requires more costs.
Research: Mortise and tenon, it is a main structural method of traditional Chinese architecture, furniture and other instruments. It is a connection method combining concave-convex parts on the two components. The protruding part is called tenon (or tenon); The recessed part is called mortise (or mortise, mortise). The utility model is characterized in that the nail is not used on the object, and the mortise and tenon are used to reinforce the object.
Inspiration: The project takes Luban lock as the design source, and obtains new inspiration from the mortise and tenon structure of Chinese traditional culture. Luban lock is difficult to remove and build for the children under the age of 6 .Therefore, this project attempts to design by simplifying the mortise and tenon structure, combining mortise and tenon with building blocks. The goal is to encourage children over 1 year old to complete the free assembly of simple mortise and tenon.
Project Duration: Start in September 2022 and end in March 2023，Shanghai
Operation Flow: This set of building blocks simplifies the complicated details of traditional mortise and tenon in the design scheme, and simplifies 30 kinds of mortise and tenon structures as the main building source. The design has three levels of difficulty: basic version, advanced and high-level version.
1）The basic version is aimed at children over 18-month-old, finding the corresponding mortise and tenon for each color, understanding the mortise and tenon structure, and exercising the ability to solve problems;2）Based on the cognition of the mortise and tenon structure, the advanced version is suitable for children over 3 years old to play. With the specific material form as a reference, by assembling two or more basic mortise and tenon, the combination can be built into specific forms such as butterflies, sun, rockets, chairs, etc., to enhance children's graphic imagination and creativity;3）The high-level version is based on the mortise and tenon structure, and focuses on the modular design of building specific material forms, such as the construction of micro-architecture scenes, the construction of story theme background and other complex large-scale space construction, which improves children's spatial imagination and logical reasoning ability, and is suitable for children over 6 years old to challenge.
Patents: Shanghai Art and Design Academy
Image Credits: Xiaoyang Feng
Huan Liu
Sha Yang