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GanDan ベンチ by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

GanDan ベンチ by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.


銅家具· 2021

GanDan ベンチ

by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About GanDan ベンチ

青森県の伝統的な職人技を参考に、金色のチーク材突き板を円と層で連続的に包み込み、その美しさを表現した、シルクワームの紡績と繭の自然にインスパイアされた手作りのベンチです。ベニヤグラデーション、ベンチの完璧な流線型の形状を形成します。木製のベンチのように硬く見えますが、代わりに柔らかな座り心地です。製造時に廃棄物やスクラップがなく、比較的環境にやさしい製品です。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

GanDan ベンチは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。GanDan ベンチは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。GanDan ベンチは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Most of the wooden furniture is mainly made of solid wood, which can only show a soft feeling in the modeling lines, but the entity is hard, and will produce a lot of waste during the production process. GanDan is a handcrafted bench, using veneer as the main expression, inspired by silkworm spinning and cocooning and by enlacing method to windup the shape of a bench, it produces a gradual beauty through continuous winding. It looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity feel when sitting on. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
Dimensions & Packaging
Material: Golden Teak Veneer
Size: Length900mm x Width300mm x Height450mm
Tags
Bench, HandCraft, Golden Teak, Veneer, Enlace, Bunaco, Cocooning
Production Technology
Material: golden teak wood veneer, wood, foam.
Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, foam Wire cutting
Handcraft Technique: Bunaco wrapping and enlacing veneer ribbon, manual polish.
Design Challenge
BUNACO's traditional craftsmanship mainly uses beech wood as the main material, and we have also tried to use sharba wood (that is, plane wood), which is thicker, easy to break, and entangled very hard. The change of shape, how to wind the veneer symmetrically and regularly bothered us. We found the golden teak veneer by chance and found that the gloss and softness of it were the most appropriate.
Research
Taiwan’s woodworking craftsmanship has a long history. In recent years, with the advancement of the technology industry, most of the demand for wooden furniture on the market has been produced in large quantities by industrial machine processing methods. Handmade furniture is gradually being replaced, and the value of hand-made woodworking crafts has gradually been lost. The masses ignore. Taking BUNACO as the research theme, I hope that wooden furniture can be presented in the most gentle way, and find this traditional craft technique originated from Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Inspiration
Inspired by the silkworm spinning and cocooning, with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, take shape by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer. Continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation.
Project Duration
The project started in August 2020 in Taiwan , completed in February 2021, first debut in March and will exhibit in Young Designers’ Exhibition in World Trade Center, May 2021.
Operation Flow
Taking shape of the bench by wrapping and enlacing wood veneer in Bunaco style, with foam inside the cocoon sphere, it looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity when sitting. Since the production procedure is wrapping and enlacing with wood veneer, no waste or scrap of wood produced.
Team Members
Instructor:ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChenYu Shih
Designer:ShinChi Yang
Designer:BoCheng Guo
Designer:JieYi Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Dept.
Image Credits
Photo Credit:
ChenYu Shih
ShinChi Yang
BoCheng Guo
JieYi Chen

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