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1x1 Urban Furniture System by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo Wins the Golden A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design
Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo acknowledged for street furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ 1x1 Urban Furniture System by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo, designed for MA projects, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Street Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About 1x1 Urban Furniture System
1x1 is a modular urban furniture system for public spaces. Each element works alone as a bench, table, planter or lamppost, or in groups that form small outdoor areas. All parts share the same standardized frame, the same materials and the same fixing methods. Timber, precast concrete and stainless steel are used. Components are produced off site and then assembled on site, which reduces shipment size. The system can be expanded or reduced by adding or removing elements, so both permanent and temporary use is possible.
Award Record
Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Street and City Furniture Design Award
The A' Street Furniture Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good street furniture designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to street furniture designers, industrial design studios, street furniture brands and street furniture manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include benches, bollards, bus shelters, bicycle racks, litter bins and planters. Awarded street furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/street-furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/102377
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102377
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102377
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/274338
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- 1x1 Urban Furniture System
- Function
- Urban Furniture System
- Category
- Street Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Olive Drab
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MA projects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo
- Country
- Denmark
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #102377
Credits
- Team
- Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo
- Image Credits
- credits for visuals: Antonio Gandolfo & Mykolas Seckus
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design is a unique modular urban furniture family. Furniture elements work both as stand-alone urban furniture pieces as well as a small scale public realm with adjustable programs. Design can be described as flexible, scalable, industrial, modular urban furniture which can work as a permanent or temporary public space intervention. Due to the intelligent use of materials design achieves high optimization as all elements use the same standardized frame structure likewise common materials and fixing methods.
- Inspiration
- Design derived from the inspiration of a post-industrial site Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Due to a comprehensive understanding of the site qualities, was pointed out the concern that the site would not have an extensive public realm, thus it was retrieved to hypothetically provide it through a multitude of small interventions. Furthermore, apart from the inspiration of rich and unique site qualities, the concept was influenced by insights of scaffolding structure and Dieter Rams shelving system 606.
- Research
- In the world, with continuous globalization and mass production, we forget to address the need for individuality. While in architecture it is a common understanding to respond to a site's specific needs and spatial qualities, street furniture is usually the victim of generic design. The industry is moving towards supply by demand model with local solutions and the customer having an increasingly higher voice in customization. 1x1 modular furniture design attempts to address these concerns
- Challenge
- One of the hardest challenges was how to make individual elements work together in a vertical and horizontal structure layout. Furthermore, how to minimise material options as well as fixing methods while creating a robust and feasible design proposal.
- Realization and Technology
- Materials: Timber (Local or Baltic Birch) Concrete (Precast) Steel (Stainless Steel) All the elements would be manufactured off-site and then brought for assembly to the site, thus optimizing the shipment size and convenience of production. Realization Technology: Manufacturing would be quite conventional since there is no complex geometry involved. Concrete would be precast, timber parts cut using usual machines and steel parts would be coming from semi-finished elements welded together.
- Operation and Interaction
- The system can work as individual furniture piece (bench/planter) or in groups forming small outside spaces (park/urban farm). While one might initially need only a small seating place outside their facility, another season might ask for a larger space where increasing numbers of visitors and clients could be accommodated. 1x1 design allows to expand or shrink by either adding or taking away individual elements. Furthermore, there is no need for a long-term commitment in case something changes.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is a conceptual design with design inspiration deriving from Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Though design could be implemented and used in other sites, preferably within an industrial setting
- Specifications
- Bench: 1000mm x 1000mm x 460mm Table/Platform: 1000mm x 1000mm x 60mm Lamppost: 100mm x 100mm x 1000mm 1m. Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 1000mm 0.5m Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 500mm 1m.Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 1040mm 0.5m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 540mm 0.25m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 290mm Additional information and drawings are inside the PDF document.
- Keywords
- Industrial, Modular, Scalable, Interactive, Optimized
