Fusion Silla plegable by Mengke Yuan, Siqi Cai and Longfei Yue

Fusion Silla plegable by Mengke Yuan, Siqi Cai and Longfei Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Mobiliario Competition Category.

HierroMobiliario· 2024

Fusion Silla plegable

by Mengke Yuan, Siqi Cai and Longfei Yue

Client: Hunan University of Engineering

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Mobiliario Category

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The Design

About Fusion Silla plegable

Fusion es una silla plegable diseñada para el uso doméstico. El diseño combina la forma de un sillón tradicional chino con la estructura compacta de una silla plegable moderna. Las patas están fabricadas en nogal negro, mientras que la zona de los reposabrazos y la superficie del asiento son de nogal amarillo. Las piezas curvas se curvan al vapor y se moldean en matrices, y los soportes metálicos del respaldo y los engranajes se funden, se rectifican y se mecanizan. La silla mide 780 por 490 por 490 milímetros. Las piezas de plegado se sitúan en la cara interior de las patas, de modo que la silla conserva su elegancia cuando está recogida.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Fusion Silla plegable 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 Fusion Silla plegable 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. Fusion Silla plegable 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: With the popularity and development of major designs, people are becoming less and less familiar with ancient art. We aim to integrate classic aesthetics into minimalist modern design, provide a fusion of classical and modern, and build a unique Art style. Promote more people to realize the charm of classic aesthetics and explore the collision of classic flavor and modern creativity.
Dimensions & Packaging: The chair is 780mm×490mm×490mm, and the seat surface is 380mm×365mm.
Tags: Folding chairs, chairs, Ming and Qing furniture, product design, furniture design
Production Technology: The chair legs are made of black walnut, and the armrest area and seat surface are made of yellow walnut. The parts that need to be bent to form a curved surface are steam-bent. After softening, a mold is used to shape the wood. The backrest metal and supports are cast and carefully ground, and the metal gears are machined.
Design Challenge: In order to create this chair, we continued to extract traditional Chinese elements from the folding chair and explored the possibility of combining each element with a folding chair. And in order to break people's inherent impression of folding chairs, its texture is constantly shaped through the fusion of metal and wood, which highlights the texture that is different from ordinary folding chairs. At the same time, in order to make the folding chair still look overall beautiful in the stowed state, the folding parts are concentrated on the inner legs, while the outer legs are responsible for supporting the chair surface, ensuring the ornamental appearance even in the stowed state.
Research: Folding chairs are very common in daily life. They are easy to use, light in weight and save space. We hope to break this inherent impression and extract the elements of the traditional Chinese high chair to create a new design for the folding chair. On the basis of the original convenience of use, we add an elegant appearance, which not only retains the original convenience of the folding chair, but also It embodies a different antique design beauty.
Inspiration: Combining tradition with the new era is an important development trend in modern design. In order to integrate traditional elements into fast and convenient modern life, we mainly combine the unique Chinese style chairs with portable folding dining chairs. The structure of the chair is combined with the grand appearance of the Chinese chair, colliding the essence of tradition with modern multiculturalism, showing infinite creativity and charm, in order to achieve the purpose of adding retro traditional meaning to the new modern design.
Project Duration: The project will start in Xiangtan in November 2023 and be completed in Zhengzhou in February 2024
Operation Flow: Part of the process of opening a folding chair retains the convenience of existing folding chairs. First, fix the position of the rear chair legs (outer leg), press the seat down from the front (facing the chair) or push forward from the back. When the seat surface is unfolded, the front legs are opened simultaneously. After reaching the sitting angle, the seat surface will be fixed by the metal structure of the rear legs. The backrest and chair ring armrests will also stretch as the seat surface and front legs are unfolded. When it reaches the bulge behind the seat, the backrest will be fixed by the magnetic buckle, and the folding chair will unfold.
Patents: Hunan University of Engineering
Team Members: Mengke Yuan
Siqi Cai
Longfei Yue
Fangui Zeng
Xingye Wang
Image Credits: Hunan University of Engineering