1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Supellex Viae Competition Category.
AurumSupellex Viae· 2020
1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae
by Mykolas Seckus and Antonio Gandolfo
Client: MA projects
Praemium A' Design Award Aureum Winner in Supellex Viae Category
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The Design
About 1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae
1x1 est systema modulare supellectilis urbanae ad spatia publica destinatum. Quodque elementum per se munere scamni, mensae, vasis plantarii vel lampadis columnae fungitur, aut in gregibus coniunctum parvas areas subdiales efformat. Omnes partes eandem compagem normatam, easdem materias eosdemque modos figendi communicant. Lignum, concretum praefabricatum et chalybs inoxydabilis adhibentur. Membra extra locum fabricantur ac deinde in loco componuntur, quo magnitudo vecturae minuitur. Systema elementis additis vel demptis augeri aut minui potest, ita ut usus et perpetuus et temporarius fieri possit.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aureum
1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aureum, honoris amplissimi formis primi ordinis, mirabilibus et praestantibus dati. Victores Aurei sunt opera valde nova, provida et splendida, quae ingenium, sapientiam et peritiam auctorum suorum referunt. Exspectatur 1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae inventum laudatissimum, inclinationes creans et monumentale fore, quod pretium inauditum afferat. Haec forma Aureo praemio victa est incepto mirabile et honoratum, quod fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovet. 1x1 Systema Supellectilis Urbanae cupiditatem vehementem excitat, studium accendit, ingenium creandi fovet et capit.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The design is a unique modular urban furniture family. Furniture elements work both as stand-alone urban furniture pieces as well as a small scale public realm with adjustable programs. Design can be described as flexible, scalable, industrial, modular urban furniture which can work as a permanent or temporary public space intervention. Due to the intelligent use of materials design achieves high optimization as all elements use the same standardized frame structure likewise common materials and fixing methods.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Bench: 1000mm x 1000mm x 460mm
Table/Platform: 1000mm x 1000mm x 60mm
Lamppost: 100mm x 100mm x 1000mm
1m. Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 1000mm
0.5m Planter: 1000mm x 1000mm x 500mm
1m.Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 1040mm
0.5m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 540mm
0.25m. Pipe: 100mm x 100mm x 290mm
Additional information and drawings are inside the PDF document. - Tags
- Industrial, Modular, Scalable, Interactive, Optimized
- Production Technology
- Materials:
Timber (Local or Baltic Birch)
Concrete (Precast)
Steel (Stainless Steel)
All the elements would be manufactured off-site and then brought for assembly to the site, thus optimizing the shipment size and convenience of production.
Realization Technology:
Manufacturing would be quite conventional since there is no complex geometry involved. Concrete would be precast, timber parts cut using usual machines and steel parts would be coming from semi-finished elements welded together. - Design Challenge
- One of the hardest challenges was how to make individual elements work together in a vertical and horizontal structure layout. Furthermore, how to minimise material options as well as fixing methods while creating a robust and feasible design proposal.
- Research
- In the world, with continuous globalization and mass production, we forget to address the need for individuality. While in architecture it is a common understanding to respond to a site's specific needs and spatial qualities, street furniture is usually the victim of generic design. The industry is moving towards supply by demand model with local solutions and the customer having an increasingly higher voice in customization. 1x1 modular furniture design attempts to address these concerns
- Inspiration
- Design derived from the inspiration of a post-industrial site Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Due to a comprehensive understanding of the site qualities, was pointed out the concern that the site would not have an extensive public realm, thus it was retrieved to hypothetically provide it through a multitude of small interventions. Furthermore, apart from the inspiration of rich and unique site qualities, the concept was influenced by insights of scaffolding structure and Dieter Rams shelving system 606.
- Project Duration
- The project is a conceptual design with design inspiration deriving from Refshaleoen, Copenhagen. Though design could be implemented and used in other sites, preferably within an industrial setting
- Operation Flow
- The system can work as individual furniture piece (bench/planter) or in groups forming small outside spaces (park/urban farm). While one might initially need only a small seating place outside their facility, another season might ask for a larger space where increasing numbers of visitors and clients could be accommodated. 1x1 design allows to expand or shrink by either adding or taking away individual elements. Furthermore, there is no need for a long-term commitment in case something changes.
- Team Members
- Mykolas Seckus
Antonio Gandolfo - Image Credits
- credits for visuals:
Antonio Gandolfo & Mykolas Seckus
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