Touch Lavabo by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes

Touch Lavabo by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Sanitarios Competition Category.

HierroSanitarios· 2022

Touch Lavabo

by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes

Client: Atılım University

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Sanitarios Category

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The Design

About Touch Lavabo

Touch es un lavabo diseñado para que dos adultos lo utilicen al mismo tiempo. La cubeta única presenta una forma escultórica y fluida que sigue el movimiento del agua. Touch mide 1250 mm de largo, 450 mm de fondo y 150 mm de alto. Unos pies integrados en la parte posterior permiten que el lavabo se sostenga por sí mismo. Touch se fabrica en cerámica fine fire clay y se acaba con un esmalte liso antiadherente fácil de limpiar. Su forma expresa cercanía y unión, convirtiendo un elemento habitual del baño en un objeto estético.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Touch Lavabo 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 Touch Lavabo 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. Touch Lavabo 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: Touch sink; while aiming to change the traditional perception of two-use washbasin with its unique form, it aims to accommodate the use of two adults in one washbasin and together with its aesthetic and functional form. It symbolizes the ideas of being together with its sculptural form and being in touch with the design approach.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions: Length: 1250 mm, Depth: 450 mm, Height: 150 mm. The packaging will be an environmentally friendly packaging that will include these dimensions optimally.
Tags: washbasin, double basin, ergonomic, functionality, sculptural, passion, to touch
Production Technology: Touch basin is produced with Fine Fire Clay (FFC) ceramic. It is then glazed with a very slippery non-stick glaze and becomes a high-performance ceramic.
Design Challenge: Semiotic science determines the colors, forms, light-shadows that the designers will use in design; He created designs with information based on the knowledge of balance and harmony created with colors, forms, light and shadows that trigger the subconscious patterns that humanity has acquired for centuries. In this way, they will create the necessary effect in the target audience and create the necessary emotion for the product to be marketed. This poses a great challenge for creativity.
Research: Easy to clean, modernism, functionalism and minimalism are on the rise in all consumer groups. However, the purpose of this design is to reflect the emotions and meanings on the form. As it is known in the signs, the denotation – emerges when the signified is perceived as it is objectively. Connotation is the implied meaning. Although the Touch washbasin is used as a washbasin for two, it is designed to express the bond, passion and togetherness between two people.
Inspiration: We are drawn to each other by love. Our shields drop, we experience excitement and a sense of oneness. We melt into each other. This closeness is reminiscent of the feeling of touching and being together. Thanks to its prestigious appearance, Touch Washbasin not only creates a sculptural visual perception in wet spaces, but also symbolizes being together in every sense. The sink concept is now turning into an aesthetic object rather than a functionality.
Project Duration: The design was started in May 2021 in Ankara
Operation Flow: Designed for two people to use together, the Touch washbasin offers its user a different bathroom and usage experience. While reflecting the passion and desire of touch between couple with its form, it has a sculptural and flowing form where aesthetics meets function. Its form is designed in accordance with the flow characteristics and behavior of water. There are integrated feet on the backs of the sinks, so they can easily stand on their own.
Team Members: Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes
Image Credits: Image #1: 3D Visualization Bulent Unal,2021.
Image #2: 3D Visualization Bulent Unal, 2021.
Image #3: 3D Visualization Bulent Unal, 2021.
Image #4: 3D Visualization Bulent Unal, 2021.
Image #5: 3D Visualization Bulent Unal, 2021.