Cornnie Sedile Angulare by Wen-Hsin Tu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Designatio Supellectilis Competition Category.
AurumSupellex· 2021
Cornnie Sedile Angulare
by Wen-Hsin Tu
Client: Wen-Hsin Tu
Praemium A' Design Award Aureum Winner in Supellex Category
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About Cornnie Sedile Angulare
Cornnie est series sedilium ad spatia angularia destinata. Series tres partes habet quae simul positae mille ducentos per septingentos per octingentos quinquaginta millimetros metiuntur. Unumquodque sedile ex ligno lamellato flexibili factum est, glutinatum et in forma machina CNC excisa pressum. Pedes curvati singula sedilia ad angulum coniungunt et novos modos spatio utendi suggerunt. Cornnie utentibus permittit ut in locis angularibus requiescant et ibi spatium quodammodo privatum creent sine muro inter se aedificato. Consilium est locum tranquillum praebere quo in apertis communibus ambitibus quis se recipere possit.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aureum
Cornnie Sedile Angulare 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 Cornnie Sedile Angulare 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. Cornnie Sedile Angulare cupiditatem vehementem excitat, studium accendit, ingenium creandi fovet et capit.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A seating series designed for corner spaces, presenting a solitary moment that conveys the message, everyone needs space for themselves. Users can find comfortable corner spaces through the use of the seating and can create a relatively personal space there, without building a wall between each other. The furniture also shows that we don‘t always need to be proactive in seeking interaction, but can take a step back and make ourselves comfortable.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1200mm*700mm*850mm
(all three pieces putting together) - Tags
- Stool, Seating, Corner, Stair, Windowsill, Retreat, Solitary, Seclusion, Interaction, Get Along With
- Production Technology
- bendable plywoods were being glued and pressed on the mould that milled by CNC
- Design Challenge
- To figure out how to connect people and the corner spaces is the hardest part. There aremanyways that wecould sit in the corner spaces. But what’s the connection between people, object (seating) and space? And then, I come up with the ideas, the curved legs of the chairs. This relationship between object and space create dialogue between themselves, and leads to the specific characters of the objects. These characteristics also seem to hint to the user how they can use the space in a novel way. The process empowers the users to experience their environment with a new perspective.
- Research
- I tried to sit in every corner space that I could find to experience how we could see and feel a room with different perspectives. And then I made some miniatures of spaces and objects to find out which element I can extract from the spaces to connect the design strongly with the corners. After the connection between object and space is bounded, I made some 1:1 prototypes of stools with curved legs and put them in certain positions to observe how people interact with them. A clear concept of the relationship between people, objects and spaces is then developed.
- Inspiration
- The spaces between public and private are becoming more open as time goes on. The people who use these in-between spaces are diverse. The interactions in these spaces enrich our everyday lives and provides inspiration, but also lead to stressful situations due to the lack of places to retreat. CORNNIE builds on these observations. Users can feel comfortable in corner spaces through the use of the seating and create a relatively personal space there without building a wall between each other.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2018 in Berlin and finished in October 2019 in Berlin, and was exhibited in the Berlin University of the Arts Design Master Graduation Show
- Operation Flow
- The seatings play an important role, they create an interface between people and space. This interrelationship leads to the specific characters of the objects, and these characteristics also seem to hint to the user how they can use the space in a novel way. The process empowers the users to experience their environment with a new perspective.
- Patents
- Design © Wen-Hsin Tu
- Team Members
- Wen-Hsin Tu
- Image Credits
- Fotos © Shih-Hsien Chan, Wen-Hsin Tu
Video Music © Shih-Hsien Chan
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