Platinum Supellex · 2021
Shelter Mensa Scriptoria
- Praemium A' Design Award Platinum 2021 in Supellex
- CLIENT: Joao Teixeira Design Studio
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 2,413,749
- Verification code 95B6330EC9 · Verify this award
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About Shelter Mensa Scriptoria
Shelter est mensa scriptoria lignea ad usum officii domestici destinata. Mensa efficacitatem operis per meliorem ordinationem sustinet, cum facili aditu ad receptacula et occulta administratione funium, quae funes ab apertura postica ad loculos anticos ducit. Loculi angulis rotundatis mensae speciem singularem praebent, et omnia elementa ita ordinata sunt ut unam formam continuam efficiant. Mensa praecipue e ligno naturali facta est, cum duobus cardinibus metallicis et politura orichalcea in parte postica. Fabricatio artes traditionales cum machinatione CNC coniungit. Mensa metitur mille quadringenta octoginta per octingenta per septingenta sexaginta millimetra.
About the Praemium A' Design Award Platinum
Shelter Mensa Scriptoria victor est Praemii A' Design Award Platinum, honoris amplissimi formis vere eximiis, elegantibus et magnificis dati. Victores Platini miracula creationis sunt, testimonia finium ingenii inventivi, et industriam inaequabilem auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur has formas opera celeberrima fore, quae aetatis venustatem definiant, ad societatis salutem conferant et fines artis, scientiae, formandi et technologiae promoveant. Shelter Mensa Scriptoria excellentiam transcendentem exhibet et utilibus proprietatibus mundum meliorem reddit. Shelter Mensa Scriptoria opus est Praemio A' Design Award Platino victum, quod cupiditates excitat, animos incitat, delectat et magnum gaudium creat.
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- Unique Properties
- The design language finds its most unique feature in the rounded corner drawers giving the desks a differentiating aspect and stylish look. Also, all elements were designed to align seamlessly between each other allowing for an overall singular design.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1480 mm x 800 mm x 760 mm
- Tags
- Desk, Wood, Wooden Desk, Desk Design, Wood Design, Furniture, Furniture Design
- Production Technology
- Desk production is based on traditional techniques, using common machinery to achieve precision like cnc and others. The desk is made using just two metallic hinges and a brass finish at the back as hardware as for the rest being natural wood. The rounded drawers are made using seams between joints in order to make the product more feasible and therefore affordable.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging aspect, and also the most fun as in many other designs, was the process of fine tuning some manufacturing details finding a balance between feasibility, aesthetics and function.
- Research
- Motivated by lockdown, Shelter arises as a natural impulse to design something that would fit most home offices environments enhancing their productivity. Since we had to adapt to new normal overnight there was a big demand on this kind of solutions, especially when witnessing a big wave of change as companies were letting employees to work from home. The insight was to design a desk oriented towards the mental health fluctuation during the pandemic, providing serenity, hence the name Shelter.
- Inspiration
- While designing the Shelter desk our main inspiration was to develop something focused on both function and aesthetics. We wanted to come up with a solution that could improve the users productivity by enhancing his organization layouts through useful features like clean cable management and easy storage access.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2020 in Porto and finished March 2021 in Porto.
- Operation Flow
- While developing Shelter desk the goal was to keep its usability as simple as its looks. For instance, the possibility to pass cables trough the back access to the front drawers seamlessly and in a hidden way is a clear aspect of performing better than most common desks in the market. The interaction between product and user is self explanatory as for the access for each of the storages the design approach clearly indicates where and how to open.
