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Udo Hubert Dagenbach Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Stone Plant Sculpture Sculpture in Street Furniture Design
Udo Hubert Dagenbach recognized for street furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2017 /DesignNewswire/ Stone Plant Sculpture Sculpture by Udo Hubert Dagenbach, designed for Glasser and Dagenbach, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Street Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2016 - 2017 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Stone Plant Sculpture Sculpture
Stone Plant Sculpture is a minimal garden formed as a cube measuring 130 by 130 by 130 centimetres. One half is a block of Jurassic limestone, cut in a quarry in southern Germany. The visible stone surfaces are chiselled and brushed to give an aged look. The other half is made of four yew plants, pruned to the final size after planting. An almost diagonal line marks the joint between stone and plant. The design is a European interpretation of Japanese Zen gardens. The cube stands on a flat lawn and needs low maintenance.
About Udo Hubert Dagenbach
Udo Dagenbach in glasser and dagenbach creates border crossing design between landart and regular landscape architecture and shows new possibilities to design urban landscapes in many different parts of the world.
Award Record
This recognition makes Udo Hubert Dagenbach a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2016 - 2017 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/54950
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/54950
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!54950
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/179021
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.glada-berlin.de/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Stone Plant Sculpture Sculpture
- Function
- Sculpture
- Category
- Street Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Black, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro and Dark Khaki
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Glasser and Dagenbach
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Udo Hubert Dagenbach
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2016 - 2017
- Design ID
- #54950
Credits
- Team
- Katrin Weincke, Bruns Nursery and Franken Schotter Quarries
- Image Credits
- Image #1 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007 Image #2 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007 Image #3 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007 Image #4 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007 Image #5 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Two companies asked for a series of gardens, objects which show the possibilties combining their products. Jurrasic limestones and plants. So we created the idea for the most minimalistic garden, a european interpretation of Japanese Zen Gardens. Forming a cube with a pruned yew and a limestone. The joint between both is defined by an almost diagonal line through the cube. Two materials - plant and stone - a simple shape.
- Inspiration
- Since long time I searched for a European equivalent of Japanese Garden designs. Finally the minimalistic ideas of the Bauhaus period gave a hint what could be possible. The suggested project is one out of a series of projects which we have done in this way. Whilst Japanese Gardens often use the scale 1:3 to reflect a real landscape in a new and abstract way, this project does not reflect any landscape and does not use any scale. It is the maximum reduction of a garden ending up as a sculpture.
- Research
- The request of two companies to do a work with the products they produce needed a research on similar projects. We found that doing this in a expectable and already common way would not give a good impression. So we found that the solution should be reduced to message they want to tell their clients with this action: "Our products fit together very well". By keeping it simple the impression is stronger.
- Challenge
- It was a challenge not to choose a solution which looked too natural and showed expectable designs. So we have struggled to be maximum minimalistic, showing a clear, simple solution that immediately could be understood by the international guests of the nursery and the United World College. To do less than could be possible is the most challenging step. Our fear that strong frosts could cool down the stone so much that the plants will be harmed and killed by it did not come true even in the high mountains of Armenia
- Realization and Technology
- One part of the garden cube is produced from a piece of Jurrasic marble, also called limestone. It was produced in a South German Quarry of the Franken Schotter Company. It was cut out of a raw block. The standing side and the side facing the plants are diamond saw cut. The visible surfaces are chisselled and brushed, what gives it a aged look. The other half is planted from four Taxus baccata, yew, from Bruns Nursery which have been properly pruned to the final size after planting.
- Operation and Interaction
- The garden cube needs low maintenance. The hedges should be properly pruned 3 times a year to show a perfect impression. The stone needs a yearly cleaning with simple water by using a high pressure cleaner. The placement on a flat piece of lawn is essential to make it work visualy.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2002 as a joint venture between the Franken Schotter Quarry and the Bruns nursery. After its realization in 2003 it stood in Bad Zwischenahn, North Germany, in front of the adminitrative office of Bruns Nursery. In 2015 the project was moved to The United World College in Dilijan Armenia, where it is installed now permanently at the Prince of Wales avenue.
- Specifications
- The stone plant sculpture forms a cube of 130 x130 x 130 cm. It consists of Lime stone and Yew hedge plants which are planted close to the stone to form the intended cube together. The stone is placed on a concrete foundation.
- Keywords
- minimal garden, minimalistic garden, garden sculpture, cube garden, plant stone, land art, minimal art, jurrasic marble, limestone, yew
