Flexion ベンチ by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes

Flexion ベンチ by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀賞 in ストリートファニチャーデザイン Competition Category.

銀ストリートファニチャー· 2021

Flexion ベンチ

by Bulent Unal and Elif Gunes

Client: Atılım University

A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in ストリートファニチャー Category

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The Design

About Flexion ベンチ

Flexionは、公共空間のために設計された屋外用ベンチです。脚部、座面、背もたれが目に見える接合部のディテールなく一つの連続した面へと流れ込む、彫刻的なフォルムを備えています。上面と下面は金属構造によって成形され、衛生的な使用に適した耐久性の高い素材であるコーリアンで覆われています。コーリアンの表面は鏡面仕上げで異なる色に塗装することが可能です。ベンチは全長300センチメートル、奥行き90センチメートル、高さ45センチメートルで、少なくとも2人がゆとりある間隔で腰掛けることができます。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀賞

Flexion ベンチは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Flexion ベンチは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Flexion ベンチは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This design aims to add a different identity to the bench design, where you can only sit for rest in daily life and do not pay much attention to its design. It is aimed to achieve this goal with a sculptural innovative touch like a mirror that reflects the identity of a concrete-filled city, the running of the people living in it.
Dimensions & Packaging: It is envisaged to be produced in different materials, textures and colors. What is important here is that the product is designed with an innovative touch to the city, with an approach that reflects the people and lives it contains. The design is 300 cm long, 90 cm deep and 45 cm high, as it is designed to seat at least two people (the length measure is also planned to keep people's social distance).
Tags: bench, furniture, outdoor, social life, daily life, innovation, reflection, sculpture
Production Technology: The bottom and top surface of the design are thought to be shaped with a metal structure and covered with Corian material. Corian; is accepted as a durable and stylish use material that provides hygienic uses in living spaces with its structure that gives personality to the environment. In the design, it is foreseen that the surfaces covered with Corian material will be painted with the desired color in a way that reflects like a mirror.
Design Challenge: While presenting a sculptural seating element that witnesses the concrete texture of the city, it also adds excitement with a different approach to the place we are in, namely the showcase of life. One of the design ideas of the product is to make an external touch to the different lives we share in the same space, even though the roles are different, that our almost identical rushing is actually a single reflection. Trying to touch human life with this approach is the challenge of this design.
Research: Bench design is a process where the design approach is solved with similar methods, generally by prioritizing the function. However, the design of these products with a different touch to the city, in the usual structure of daily life that repeats each other almost every day; adds richness and excitement to products where people rest for a few minutes. With this design, it is aimed to provide an innovative touch to the city with a sculptural seating unit that reflects the lives of people.
Inspiration: The hustle and bustle of daily life has given us the greatest role of the city, neighborhood and street of which we are a part. However, in the flow we have lost the excitement of our greatest roles in the environment we live in. Our scenes are always the same and familiar, traditional and places with little innovation. This design conveys the leading roles and the reflections of their lives, just like an excitement from the future, with a touch apart from the traditional to our life scene.
Project Duration: The idea of designing a bank began in November 2019, and the project finished in January 2020.
Operation Flow: The parts of the design that can form the legs and backrests are reflected in the name of the design, and the body has been formed in a fluid way without showing distinct joining details between these parts. It is desired to create the effect that a surface is given the function of a sitting element by stretching and bending without using any combination elements. It is designed to seat at least two people in a way to keep people's social distance.
Team Members: Bülent Ünal
Elif Güneş
Image Credits: Bulent Unal