Swing Ao 의자 by Takusei Kajitani is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 은상 in 가구 디자인 Competition Category.
은가구· 2022
Swing Ao 의자
Client: Consentable
A' Design Award 은상 Winner in 가구 Category
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The Design
About Swing Ao 의자
대부분의 기존 의자는 인체가 움직이도록 설계되었지만 앉는 것은 정적 상태라는 생각에 기초하여 설계되었습니다. 스윙아오는 시터의 골반 움직임과 연동하여 시트가 자유롭게 움직일 수 있는 텐션 구조를 가지고 있습니다. 이것은 부유감과 골반, 척추 및 주변 근육의 움직임을 촉진하여 마치 작은 그네에서 노는 것처럼 신체의 기능을 활성화시킵니다. 또한 8도 각도의 좌면으로 고정식 스툴로도 활용 가능해 가늘고 긴 척추로 건강한 자세를 유지할 수 있다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 은상
Swing Ao 의자, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 은상 수상작으로, 최상급이며 아름답고 인상적인 디자인에 수여되는 비범하게 권위 있는 인정입니다. 은상 수상작은 대단히 뛰어나고 매우 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 탁월한 전문 지식, 재능, 통찰력을 보여 줍니다. Swing Ao 의자, 이 작품은 훌륭한 대표작으로서 매우 전문적이고 깊이 있게 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 은상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 경계를 넓히는 데 이바지하는 주목할 만하고 찬사를 받는 발명품입니다. Swing Ao 의자, 이 작품은 모두가 부러워하는 창작물로서 욕망을 일깨우고 긍정적인 감정을 불러오며 경탄과 경이로움을 불러일으킵니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Swing is designed with a tension structure that allows the seat to move freely in conjunction with the movement of the sitter's pelvis. As a result, you can enjoy a floating sensation, and it promotes the movement of the pelvis, spine, and surrounding muscles, thereby activating your body's functions like playing on a small swing. And you can also sit on it as a regular stool with an 8-degree angle seat to maintain a healthy posture that prevents hunching over.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Diameter 300mm x Height 450mm, made of solid black cherry wood with indigo-dyed finish collaborated with Ao team in Tokyo. The suspension material is 3mm rope for dinghy. The seat is upholstered with artificial leather over 60mm thick urethane cushion.
- Tags
- Athlete, Health, Body balance, Stool, Chair, Swing, Dynamic, Tensegrity, Tension
- Production Technology
- Swing consists of an upper seat structure, a lower leg structure, and a suspension material that connects both of them. A plurality of suspension materials connected to the leg structure suspend a rod extending downward from the seat structure. The rod of the seat structure passes through a hole arranged in the center of the top panel of the leg structure. The diameter of the hole in the leg structure is larger than the diameter of the rod in the seat structure, and the user can move the seat freely within the difference in diameters.
- Design Challenge
- First of all, I wondered if it would be possible to develop a chair that would benefit athletes and stimulate their athletic sense. And I began to study body manipulation and body structure, then became interested in the changes in body structure during the process of human evolution, or the functional significance of the missing tail. At that time, I realized that the sense of balance in the body is very important for athletes. And the image of Swing was coming to me.
- Research
- I referred to The Alexander Technique For Musicians by Peter Buckoke for information on how to use the human body. In particular, I focused on the importance of the sense of balance that we unconsciously have.
For the design of the suspension structure, I took a hint from Tensegrity by Buckminster Fuller. - Inspiration
- The most chair have been designed on the idea that sitting is a static movement despite the human body is designed to move. It forces our body to stay rigid for a long time, accelerating our body's dis-activation. Swing is designed for solving this problem with a tension structure that allows the seat to move freely in conjunction with the movement of the sitter's pelvis like a small swing. You can enjoy a floating sensation with activating your body's functions with this stool.
- Project Duration
- Swing project started as The Chair for Athlete project in Tokyo in April 2021, and the initial model of Swing was completed in November 2021.
- Operation Flow
- This is a stool that can be used in two sitting modes: dynamic and static.When sitting dynamically, you sit in such a way that the rod extending under the seat touches the hole for penetration in the base parts as little as possible, and move your pelvis, hip joints, and spine to enjoy the swing of the seat. Enjoy dynamic sitting when you want to sit back or change your mind.When sitting statically, sit leaning forward so that the rod extending under the seat touches the hole. You can sit in a straight posture because the seat is fixed at an angle of about 8 degrees.
- Patents
- Design registration pending. Takusei Kajitani. Certificate of Design Registration, Japan Patent Office.
- Team Members
- Ao Designer: Yoh Miyachi
Craftsman: Ryosuke Tanaka - Image Credits
- Image #1-5: Photographer Yoko Inoue, Variations, 2022.
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