Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope by Wai Ho Cheung

Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope by Wai Ho Cheung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Lako Hale Competition Category.

KeleaweLako Hale· 2017

Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope

by Wai Ho Cheung

Client: Wai Ho Cheung

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Lako Hale Category

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The Design

About Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope

ʻO ka Arctic kahi papaʻaina kofe me nā nalu ikaika ma lalo e hoʻohua ai i kahi hiʻohiʻona hiʻohiʻona e ʻike ʻia ka papa ʻaina me ka neʻe. Ma Chinese Five Elements, pili ka ʻeleʻele i ka ʻeleʻele wai no laila ua pena ʻia ka papaʻaina i ka ʻeleʻele a me ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i ka ʻike ʻike o nā nalu. Ma ka manaʻo o ka mea hoʻolālā, ua like ka aesthetics me ka hana. No laila, ke kuleana o nā ʻōpala i ka hana me nā papa kākoʻo ʻoiai hiki ke hoʻohana pono ʻia nā nalu: hiki ke hoʻohana ʻia nā kihi o luna e like me ke kū CD a hiki ke hoʻohana ʻia nā nalu ma ke ʻano he mau nūpepa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Arctic ʻo Ka Papaʻaina Kope i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

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