Gunes Manija de Puerta by Elif Gunes is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Accesorios de Mobiliario Competition Category.

HierroAccesorio de Mobiliario· 2020

Gunes Manija de Puerta

by Elif Gunes

Client: Atılım University

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Accesorio de Mobiliario Category

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The Design

About Gunes Manija de Puerta

Gunes es una manija de puerta diseñada para puertas interiores. La manija bloquea la puerta sin necesidad de llave. El usuario sujeta el círculo iluminado y lo gira hacia la derecha o hacia la izquierda. Una luz roja indica el estado bloqueado y una luz verde indica el estado desbloqueado. El cuerpo está fabricado en aluminio inyectado con una textura cepillada y puede colorearse para armonizar con el interior. Las líneas circulares se expanden desde un único centro y aluden al movimiento de giro. El ancho total es de 180 mm y el círculo iluminado tiene un diámetro de 60 mm.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Gunes Manija de Puerta ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Gunes Manija de Puerta sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Gunes Manija de Puerta es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This door handle design offers a blend of ergonomic, innovative, aesthetic and high-tech design approaches.
Unlike traditional door locking systems, it is a fixture with an ergonomic locking system supported by colored light without using keys. To open or lock the door, it is enough just to grasp the illuminated circle by hand and turn it to the right or left. The design is formed by circular lines that refer to this turning action and are distributed from a single center.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total width 180mm * 55mm * Height from floor to center 110mm. The diameter of the circle in the lock system is 60mm. The radius of the semicircle that forms the base of the fixture is 15 cm. For the colored lights that make up the lock system, there is a battery socket right inside the full circle.
Tags: Door handle, Technology, Ergonomics, Innovative design, Built environment, Furniture accessory
Production Technology: Die casting aluminum for door handle body with brushed texture and can be dyed to any color according to personal preferences. In this way it offers different user experiences and allows personalization. Thus, it can become a part of interior environment with the shaping of the user where she lives in. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Design Challenge: The big challenge of the design was to design a door handle as a built-in fixture with a high-tech visual properties that reflects the innovative design approach used in daily products such as telephone, music listening devices. In addition, it is critical to design a door handle system that locked without using a key by just turning a circular piece that informing the user with colored light.
Research: Today, compared to past, technology-friendly products perceived warmer and more welcoming feeling. This door handle provides a high-tech, innovative and aesthetic visual approach to a built-in. Without using a key, the door is locked by a simple turning movement of an illuminated circle and color of the light give clue whether the door is locked. Red led light color used to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state in line with the universal acceptance.
Inspiration: Nowadays, the technological equipment of almost every product we use frequently in our daily lives increases.
The inspiration was come out with the idea that not only portable devices designed with technological approach but also the possibility of designing a built in element fixture of the environment we live in can have an innovative and user-friendly effect.Designing a door handle to give a new identity to the use of the doors and make it a part of built environment is the basic inspiration
Project Duration: The idea of designing the project started in December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.
Operation Flow: This door handle design allows user an ergonomic use of a lock door system. The door the door is locked by simply turning the illuminated circle without using a key. By the light provided with the apparatus, it is understood whether the door is locked or not. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Team Members: Elif Gunes