Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks by Shanghai Art and Design Academy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ihe Egwuregwu, Egwuregwu na Ngwaahịa Ntụrụndụ Competition Category.

BronzIhe Egwuregwu· 2023

Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks

by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Client: Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Ihe Egwuregwu Category

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The Design

About Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks

Concave-Convex bụ ntinye osisi e ji arụ ihe maka ụmụaka na-eto eto. Ntinye a nwere ibe 211 e sepụtara site n'ụkpụrụ ọdịdị mortise na tenon nke ọdịnala ndị China, e mere ka ọ dị mfe ghọọ ụdị njikọ 30 dịka square dovetail na T-shaped tenon. E ji osisi walnut oji dị iji mee tenons ndị ahụ, mortises ndị ọzọ ka e ji osisi beech dị mfe mee, nke mere na e nwere ike ịmata akụkụ abụọ ahụ site na agba ha dị iche. E ji igwe ọrụ osisi wuo mkpirisi ndị a ma jiri aka rụchaa ọrụ ahụ. E nwere ọkwa mfe atọ, kwekọrọ maka ụmụaka site n'ọnwa iri na asatọ ruo n'afọ isii gafere, malite na ijikọ otu njikọ ruo n'iwu ihe ngosi ndị buru ibu.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. Concave-Convex Mortise na Tenon Blocks na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The tenon and mortise building blocks are 211 pieces in total, extracted from the traditional Chinese tenon and mortise structure and simplified into 30 simple tenons and mortises (such as square dovetail, T-shaped tenon, etc.) suitable for young children to play. The tenon and mortise are made of dark black walnut wood and light beech wood, respectively. In the process of finding partners for each tenon, children can learn the wisdom of the ancients.
Dimensions & Packaging: Package size: 220mm*195mm*280mm,
Material: Beech, Black Walnut
Tags: Traditional culture, mortise and tenon structure, educational toys, preschool children
Production Technology: Woodworking machine carving and manual detail processing
Design Challenge: This toy has high requirements for the accuracy of mortise and tenon joint clearance. The joint between mortise and tenon cannot be too loose or too tight. The manual polishing process requires more costs.
Research: Mortise and tenon, it is a main structural method of traditional Chinese architecture, furniture and other instruments. It is a connection method combining concave-convex parts on the two components. The protruding part is called tenon (or tenon); The recessed part is called mortise (or mortise, mortise). The utility model is characterized in that the nail is not used on the object, and the mortise and tenon are used to reinforce the object.
Inspiration: The project takes Luban lock as the design source, and obtains new inspiration from the mortise and tenon structure of Chinese traditional culture. Luban lock is difficult to remove and build for the children under the age of 6 .Therefore, this project attempts to design by simplifying the mortise and tenon structure, combining mortise and tenon with building blocks. The goal is to encourage children over 1 year old to complete the free assembly of simple mortise and tenon.
Project Duration: Start in September 2022 and end in March 2023，Shanghai
Operation Flow: This set of building blocks simplifies the complicated details of traditional mortise and tenon in the design scheme, and simplifies 30 kinds of mortise and tenon structures as the main building source. The design has three levels of difficulty: basic version, advanced and high-level version.
1）The basic version is aimed at children over 18-month-old, finding the corresponding mortise and tenon for each color, understanding the mortise and tenon structure, and exercising the ability to solve problems;2）Based on the cognition of the mortise and tenon structure, the advanced version is suitable for children over 3 years old to play. With the specific material form as a reference, by assembling two or more basic mortise and tenon, the combination can be built into specific forms such as butterflies, sun, rockets, chairs, etc., to enhance children's graphic imagination and creativity;3）The high-level version is based on the mortise and tenon structure, and focuses on the modular design of building specific material forms, such as the construction of micro-architecture scenes, the construction of story theme background and other complex large-scale space construction, which improves children's spatial imagination and logical reasoning ability, and is suitable for children over 6 years old to challenge.
Patents: Shanghai Art and Design Academy
Image Credits: Xiaoyang Feng
Huan Liu
Sha Yang