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Arctic میز قهوه by Wai Ho Cheung

Arctic میز قهوه by Wai Ho Cheung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 جایزه برنزی A' Design Award in طراحی مبلمان Competition Category.


برنزمبلمان· 2017

Arctic میز قهوه

by Wai Ho Cheung

Client: Wai Ho Cheung

جایزه برنزی A' Design Award Winner in مبلمان Category

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The Design

About Arctic میز قهوه

قطب شمال یک میز قهوه با امواج پویا در پایین است که یک توهم بصری ایجاد می کند که میز ثابت به عنوان متحرک به نظر می رسد. در پنج عنصر چینی، رنگ مشکی با عنصر آب مطابقت دارد، از این رو میز به رنگ سیاه رنگ شده و همچنین بر توهم بصری امواج تأکید دارد. در مفهوم طراح، زیبایی شناسی برابر با عملکرد است. بنابراین، نوارها وظیفه عملکرد را با قاب های نگهدارنده دارند، در حالی که امواج را می توان به طور عملی استفاده کرد: گوشه های بالایی را می توان به عنوان پایه CD و امواج را می توان به عنوان پایه مجله استفاده کرد.

The Recognition

About the جایزه برنزی A' Design Award

Arctic میز قهوه برنده جایزه برنزی A' Design Award است، شناختی بسیار معتبر که به طراحی‌های برجسته‌ای اعطا می‌شود که با خلاقیت، نبوغ و زیرکی متمایز می‌شوند. برندگان برنز مصنوعاتی بسیار ماهرانه و چشمگیر خلاق‌اند که تجربه گسترده، تخیل و ابتکار طراحان خود را تأیید می‌کنند. از Arctic میز قهوه انتظار می‌رود شیئی بسیار ارجمند، ستوده و دوست‌داشتنی باشد که به‌طور چشمگیری حرفه‌ای و نوآورانه است. این طراحی برنده جایزه برنزی A' Design Award بهترین رویه‌ها را در هنر، علم، طراحی و فناوری در خود جمع می‌کند و به سبب توجه به جزئیات برجسته است. Arctic میز قهوه نیازها را زیبا برآورده می‌کند، به خواسته‌ها دست می‌زند، احساسات را مجذوب می‌سازد و کنجکاوی را برمی‌انگیزد.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
Arctic is made of painted metal strips with dynamic waves at the base which make the still table appears as moving. The strips and supporting frames are interwoven useful space, as well as the waves underneath can be functional. In this coffee table, aesthetics also means functionality, which is what contemporary design should fulfil in my opinion.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width1200mm x Depth600mm x Height420mm
Tags
furniture, coffee table, waves, metal, strips
Production Technology
Arctic is a coffee table made of looped metal strips with a wave bent at the bottom of each and fixed by supporting frames. Each strip is placed inversely to others alongside that interweave dynamic waves, like currents in ocean. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding colour to Water element is black. Therefore, the table is painted in black which can also emphasise the visual illusion of the moving currents.
Design Challenge
As the combination with those factors is always thought to be the product only appears in utopia, Arctic is created in order to challenge the mission. Incidentally, Arctic is the second version of this project. The first version was designed with 3 types of materials, so the hardest point of this project was to reduce the material types used, at the same time to keep the dynamic outlook and to emphasise it.
Research
In nowadays market, customers always demand products to fulfil the combination on 3 aspects: high functionality, low cost and high aesthetics. On the other hand, companies are always asking for products with: high profit, high market share and economy production process.
Inspiration
The form is inspired by tidal wave hence the inspiration is conducted to mathematical sinusoidal wave with the keyword, wave. In the meantime, the functionality is inspired by park bench slats; the structure of the slats with gaps in between is considered to be highly functional. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding direction to Water element is north. Thus, it is named as the largest ocean in the north, Arctic.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2016 in Hong Kong and finished in April 2016 in Hong Kong.
Operation Flow
The metal strips are responsible to in term of both aesthetics and functionality. On the top corners, the strips can be used as CD stands with the supporting frames. Moreover, the waves underneath can be used as a magazine stand. For extra, users can hang a little basket on the supporting frames beside. The dynamic waves at the bottom appear as currents in the ocean, which make the still table seems to be moving hence make the living room vigorous.
Team Members
Wai Ho Cheung

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