1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo

1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Kultapalkinto A' Design Award in Katukalusteet Competition Category.

KultaKatukalusteet· 2020

1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä

by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo

Client: MA projects

Kultapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Katukalusteet Category

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The Design

About 1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä

1x1 on modulaarinen kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä julkisiin tiloihin. Jokainen elementti toimii yksinään penkkinä, pöytänä, istutusastiana tai lyhtypylväänä tai ryhmissä, jotka muodostavat pieniä ulkoalueita. Kaikilla osilla on sama standardoitu runko, samat materiaalit ja samat kiinnitysmenetelmät. Materiaaleina käytetään puuta, betonielementtejä ja ruostumatonta terästä. Komponentit valmistetaan muualla ja kootaan paikan päällä, mikä pienentää kuljetusten kokoa. Järjestelmää voidaan laajentaa tai supistaa lisäämällä tai poistamalla elementtejä, joten sekä pysyvä että tilapäinen käyttö on mahdollista.

The Recognition

About the Kultapalkinto A' Design Award

1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä on Kultapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään ensiluokkaisille, ihmeellisille ja erinomaisille designeille. Kultavoittajat ovat äärimmäisen innovatiivisia, visionäärisiä ja glamourisesti häikäiseviä luomuksia, jotka heijastavat suunnittelijoidensa nerokkuutta, viisautta ja taitavuutta. 1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä:n odotetaan olevan korkeasti ylistetty, suuntaa näyttävä ja monumentaalinen keksintö, joka tuottaa ennennäkemätöntä arvoa. Tämä Kultapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign on näyttävä, arvostettu projekti, joka hyödyttää suuresti taiteen, tieteen, designin ja teknologian rajojen laajentamista. 1x1 Kaupunkikalustejärjestelmä herättää voimakasta haluamisen tunnetta, synnyttää intohimoa, rohkaisee luovuuteen ja kiehtoo meitä.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design is a unique modular urban furniture family. Furniture elements work both as stand-alone urban furniture pieces as well as a small scale public realm with adjustable programs. Design can be described as flexible, scalable, industrial, modular urban furniture which can work as a permanent or temporary public space intervention. Due to the intelligent use of materials design achieves high optimization as all elements use the same standardized frame structure likewise common materials and fixing methods.
Dimensions & Packaging: Bench: 1000mm x 1000mm x 460mm
Table/Platform: 1000mm x 1000mm x 60mm
Lamppost: 100mm x 100mm x 1000mm
1m. Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 1000mm
0.5m Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 500mm
1m.Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 1040mm
0.5m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 540mm
0.25m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 290mm

Additional information and drawings are inside the PDF document.
Tags: Industrial, Modular, Scalable, Interactive, Optimized
Production Technology: Materials:
Timber (Local or Baltic Birch)
Concrete (Precast)
Steel (Stainless Steel)

All the elements would be manufactured off-site and then brought for assembly to the site, thus optimizing the shipment size and convenience of production.

Realization Technology:
Manufacturing would be quite conventional since there is no complex geometry involved. Concrete would be precast, timber parts cut using usual machines and steel parts would be coming from semi-finished elements welded together.
Design Challenge: One of the hardest challenges was how to make individual elements work together in a vertical and horizontal structure layout. Furthermore, how to minimise material options as well as fixing methods while creating a robust and feasible design proposal.
Research: In the world, with continuous globalization and mass production, we forget to address the need for individuality. While in architecture it is a common understanding to respond to a site's specific needs and spatial qualities, street furniture is usually the victim of generic design. The industry is moving towards supply by demand model with local solutions and the customer having an increasingly higher voice in customization. 1x1 modular furniture design attempts to address these concerns
Inspiration: Design derived from the inspiration of a post-industrial site Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Due to a comprehensive understanding of the site qualities, was pointed out the concern that the site would not have an extensive public realm, thus it was retrieved to hypothetically provide it through a multitude of small interventions. Furthermore, apart from the inspiration of rich and unique site qualities, the concept was influenced by insights of scaffolding structure and Dieter Rams shelving system 606.
Project Duration: The project is a conceptual design with design inspiration deriving from Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Though design could be implemented and used in other sites, preferably within an industrial setting
Operation Flow: The system can work as individual furniture piece (bench/planter) or in groups forming small outside spaces (park/urban farm). While one might initially need only a small seating place outside their facility, another season might ask for a larger space where increasing numbers of visitors and clients could be accommodated. 1x1 design allows to expand or shrink by either adding or taking away individual elements. Furthermore, there is no need for a long-term commitment in case something changes.
Team Members: Mykolas Seckus
Antonio Gandolfo
Image Credits: credits for visuals:

Antonio Gandolfo & Mykolas Seckus