Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ） by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
銅家具· 2020
Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ）
Client: Xiamen University of Technology
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家具 Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #94380The Design
About Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ）
「Shi」は、茶を淹れ、供するためにデザインされた茶盤です。天然石の円盤とアルミニウム製の排水シャーシを組み合わせています。天板は平坦部と凹面部に分けられ、その高低差は16ミリメートル。平坦部は乾いた状態を保ち茶器を置く場所となり、凹面部は使用済みの湯を受け止めて排出します。排水口は凹面の最も低い位置に設けられ、水位が常に見えるため、適切なタイミングで水を捨てることができます。石材はコンピュータ制御による切削で成形され、サンドブラスト仕上げが施されています。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ）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。Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ）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。Shi 茶盤（ティートレイ）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
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Tea tray is usually plane and tea water flows everywhere when using under the condition, which brings inconvenience. The design inspiration comes from bridge, which integrates plane & concave and presents the tension of shape. The concave brings height difference, which not only realizes dry and wet depart, but also can be easy to drain water, while cleverly reminding the state of water storage.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Product size Width 140mm x Depth 600mm x Height40mm
Package size Width 260mm x Depth700mm x Height80mm - Tags
- tea tray, stone design, simple, natural interaction, instinct, light weight, different materials combination
- Production Technology
- Shi is made of natural stone and aluminum. The natural stone is treated by CNC and water knife cutting molding technology, which surface is realized by sandblasting technology. The aluminum is treated by die drawing and cutting technology, which surface is realized by matte painting.
- Design Challenge
- The concave curvature of natural stone plate should not only ensure the high efficiency of drainage, and the realization of modeling, but also satisfy the reminding of water level. Through the virtual simulation and physical model test, the radius of curvature of the concave surface is determined to be 212 mm finally.
- Research
- The tea tray design belongs to the application research, which object is to guide user behavior through the simplest language form, combining with ways of user interview, focusing group, product usability testing, consumer diary.
- Inspiration
- Shi is a kind of water storage tea tray, which is made of natural stone and metal (aluminum) water chassis, modeling simple. The disk is designed with drop type through the plane with concave surface, with height difference of 1.6 cm. The plane is used as dry areas, the concave as wet areas, which cleverly realizes tea-making scenarios of dry and wet depart. Besides, for the concave is lower, so we can visually see the tea overflowing from the drain, which prompts the user dumping of tea.
- Project Duration
- The project was started in xiamen in February 2019, completed in xiamen in September 2019 and exhibited in Shanghai in October 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The flat part of the tea tray is placed with the tea set and the concave part is the operating area. The height difference between the plane surface and concave surface allows an efficient drainage. When the water reaches three quarters of the tank, the user can visually observe the water level from the lowest point of the concave surface to facilitate the timely dumping.
- Patents
- PATENTS，201930411752.0，Gang Wang，2019，China
- Team Members
- Guokun Wang
Chenghua Pan
Xinya Feng - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
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