Sketch Apala by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Sketch Apala by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award in Altzari Diseinua Competition Category.

ZilarAltzariak· 2023

Sketch Apala

by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Freestyle Outdoor Living Co. Ltd

Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Altzariak Category

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The Design

About Sketch Apala

Sketch apala kaosaren barruko apal ordenatua da. Diseinu metodo digitalez egina. Apalaren diseinu inspirazioa eraikuntza-lanetan eraikitzen ari den eraikinaren altzairuzko eskeletoa da. Diseinatzaileak lerroak konbinatu zituen algoritmoa erabiliz biltegiratzeko espazioa sortzeko. Lerroak metodikoki eratu daitezke kaosean. Urrutitik ikusita, lerro nahastea dirudi, baina benetan apal bat da. Eta apal berezi hauek ez dira ziurgabetasunak aurkitzeko erantzunekin soilik agertzen, baizik eta teknologia eta arte modernoaren edertasunarekin ere bai.

The Recognition

About the Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award

Sketch Apala Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, goi-mailako, zoragarriak eta liluragarriak diren diseinuei ematen zaien ezohiko aitorpen prestijiotsua. Zilar-mailako irabazleak lan oso distiratsuak eta sormen biziko lanak dira, beren diseinatzaileen aditutasun, talentu eta zorroztasun nabarmenak erakusten dituztenak. Sketch Apala erakusleiho-lan zoragarria, nabarmenki profesionala eta sakonki berritzailea izatea espero da. Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu hau asmakizun oso nabarmena eta miretsia da, onura ekartzen duena eta artearen, zientziaren, diseinuaren eta teknologiaren mugak zabaltzen dituena. Sketch Apala jende askok inbidia duen sorkuntza da, desirak pizten dituena, sentimendu positiboak ekartzen dituena eta harridura eta txunditzea pizten dituena.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.
Dimensions & Packaging: 812 mm * 424 mm * 1630 mm
Tags: shelf, line, office, commercial furniture, art furniture, digital design
Production Technology: Designer discuss the application of digital design method to give the product a new form of research. First, we build a framework of product form we want, and then use grasshopper software to generate some shapes randomly. Designers adjust these forms according to ergonomics, aesthetics, etc., and choose the style suitable for industrial mass production technology, and finally present a work.
Random forms are difficult to manufacture because they cannot be made directly after traditional engineering drawings. So we decided to break the whole into pieces of metal, and then connect the pieces.
Design Challenge: Social perspective. It can challenge the public's understanding of traditional shelves.
Technology implementation. During the design process, the computer will produce a lot of random structures, designers need to balance the relationship between these random forms and product forms. In addition, designers should balance these random forms with the realization of industrial mass production.
Research: Digital design, a dynamic design style, pursuing uncertainties, can create a huge amount of variate by logical algorithm, as well as interact with human. Therefore, these random states and results of a new sense of openness bring people in certain environment more space of imagination, which we believe will change our way of thinking someday.
Inspiration: The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. They are complex and orderly, order within chaos.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2020 in Hangzhou
Operation Flow: The shelf can hold things, crisscross lines can also hang things, and the top support leg can be exposed to hang clothes.
Team Members: Xuelian Li
Shichao Wang
Hongwang Zhu
Lihong Xin