The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh by Jiangying Guo

The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh by Jiangying Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal in Afeṣṣel n Iferrasen Competition Category.

UzzalIferrasen· 2022

The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh

by Jiangying Guo

Client: Jiangying Guo

Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal Winner in Iferrasen Category

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The Design

About The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh

Amestay: Swing Chair d akersi yettwaslen s tigawt n uzenzu (swing). Aslugen-a yettarra ɣer umuzur n lekyan, yerna-d amyager adiynamik i westeɛfu akked wurar. Adukan d uzagur d imẓiwar yerna zemren ad ttwabeddlen, ihi ttabaɛen tanila n uqqim akked umuzur i yebɣa umseqdac. Tuɣzi ger adukan d uzagur tezmer ad tenneql seg 120 ar 133 n tsedduyin. Talast n tebniqt d takubt n 61x61x61 santimitr. Aẓaru (asɣan) n tqejjart yettwasseqdac i lqualab, taplakit i wesbeddi n adukan d uzagur, akked uḥbal n uḍbib i teqcicin i yettwaslen. Aḥbal ureɣ yesnulfay-d asemtaɣ ɣef ttejra, ayen yeǧǧan lekyan ad yili ittwaḍebbeṛ yerna d aɣellay.

The Recognition

About the Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal

The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh d amerbaḥ n Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal, tagmat i yisnulfa yelhan i yemmalen ayen i d-ttrajun yimdanen seg yisnulfa yelhan. Imerbaḥen n Uzzal ttbanen d tmusni, tmahilt d tazmert n yimahilen-nsen. The Swing Chair Ameẓẓugh ad yili d asnulfu yettwaɛezzen, yelhan, amaynut. Isnulfa-a ttwaɛezzen imi ɛawnen deg tudert, rran ddunit ugar n lxir.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Inspired by the swing, this chair aims to respond with human body movements and create a dynamic interaction with the users - for them to relax and play. The seat and backrest are flexible and adjustable in a way that they are able to follow users’ preferred sitting positions and their movements while sitting. It also has a minimal structure: seat and backrest supported by a simple frame (61x61x61cm), giving the seat floating and chair lightweight.
Dimensions & Packaging: The chair is in a "perfect cube" structure: 61x61x61cm.
Tags: Chair, Sustainable, Playful, Moveable Seats, Swing
Production Technology: The material here I used Oak wood for the structure, plywood for the seat and backrest, cotton cord for the swing, and rubber screw to connect the backrest.
Design Challenge: The hardest part of this design is to control the level of movement, which is affected by the design as well as the material. Allowing too much movement would cause a user to fall off the chair. The thick cotton cord has rough texture and thus create good friction with the wood, in this way, it allows the seat to still create movements but in a controlled and safe way.
Inspiration: This chair is inspired by the swing. I want to incorporate the playfulness and movement of swing into a chair which is normally considered to have a fixed angle between seat and backrest.
Project Duration: This project is completed in Copenhagen in 2017; the duration of design and production took around 2 months.
Operation Flow: Both the seat and backrest are adjustable based on user's movement. The angle between the seat and backrest could be adjusted from 120 to 133 degree (please see the image above).