Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティング by Eun Whan Cho is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 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· 2022
Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティング
by Eun Whan Cho
Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
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 Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティング
「Amplification of Sensation（感覚の増幅）」は、廃棄プラスチックから生まれた彫刻としても機能するパブリックチェアである。このチェアはソウル・漢江の遊歩道沿いに設置されている。漏斗状のフォルムが着座した人を包み込み、樹木や水の音を増幅させる。またその形状は風景を切り取るフレームとなり、周囲の景観へと意識を集中させる。素材は廃プラスチックを細かく粉砕し、座面へと成形することで生み出されている。このデザインは、市民に憩いのひとときをもたらすとともに、環境問題について考えるきっかけを提供する。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティングは、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。Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティングは、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。Amplification of Sensation パブリックシーティングは、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 chair is made of discarded plastic pieces and also serves as a public sculpture. The project was installed in the middle of Seoul, where garbage was poured out, and was named 'Amplification of Sensation' by designer. The designer wanted to encourage citizens to think about environmental issues through this chair, while also allowing them to focus on the sense of perception of the surrounding environment in the city.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 850 mm x 960 mm x 1950 mm
- Tags
- mootaa, street furnitrue, eunwhan cho, seoul,
- Production Technology
- The material of this chair is a piece obtained by pulverizing discarded plastic.
- Design Challenge
- In the process of making this chair, collecting materials and experimenting with materials were the most difficult parts. We collected and crushed discarded plastic waste, and conducted various experiments to mold this material back into a chair.
- Research
- These chairs look like funnels or megaphone. When we sit on these chairs, the sounds of trees and rivers are amplified. We can clearly hear not only the sound of nature, but also the sound of someone walking or running fast, sitting for a while and sighing, and bursting laughter out of conversation with friends. The scenery that seems trapped in a narrow field of vision reveals itself more precisely because of that. In this place, our view is transformed into the focused gaze, not a passing gaze. You can fully concentrate on your senses for a short time. And those senses extend outward. Sensory stimulation comes from the outside, something different from me, that is the difference. Our senses can be enhanced in a way of communication all the time. Even at the moment of deviation, we are destined to be connected somewhere continuously.
One more thing we can't miss is the use of recycled plastic chips. Although plastics have made our lives convenient, it is causing a lot of environmental problems. We often discuss plastics and marine pollution by it while drinking coffee in a plastic cup ironically. The sense that we are holding plastics in our hand is fading away. Sitting on a chair made of recycled plastics and contacting with it, we could amplify our senses as well as think about environmental issues for a while. Because we can only feel senses coming from the outside. - Inspiration
- This chair was designed for urban environmental problems and citizens' rest. The Han River runs through the center of Seoul and is also a place loved by citizens. This river is one of the few places to feel nature in this polluted city. The Seoul Metropolitan Government requested a designer for a public installation for this important place, and Designer designed and installed these chairs.
- Project Duration
- This chair will be manufactured at the request of the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2018 and then installed on the promenade around the Han River by 2026.
- Operation Flow
- Users can sit on funnel-shaped chairs and focus on the surrounding sounds and scenery. In addition, the user has the opportunity to think about environmental problems by checking the recycled chair materials with his eyes and hands.
- Team Members
- taiho shin
- Image Credits
- Images : Photographer mootaa, 2020
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