The Grand Alveus Theae by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand Alveus Theae by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Instrumenta Culinae Competition Category.

FerrumInstrumenta Culinae· 2020

The Grand Alveus Theae

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Instrumenta Culinae Category

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The Design

About The Grand Alveus Theae

Textus Libri: Grandis est alveus theae ad morem Sinensem theae coquendae compositus. Corpus principale ex lapide nigro factum est, cum incrustatione lapidis pretiosi secundum sectionem auream disposita. Superficies alvei formam geometricam gradatam habet, cum declivitate inter loca alta et humilia. Aqua ab area altiore, ubi urceus theae stat, ad aream humiliorem, ubi pocula posita sunt, fluit, deinde per exitum occultum egreditur. Lapis per machinationem CNC cum opere manuali adiecto formatur, et superficies expolitur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

The Grand Alveus Theae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur The Grand Alveus Theae creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. The Grand Alveus Theae ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. Not only is the overall modelling contracted, it skillfully realize The function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving.
Dimensions & Packaging: width 900mm x depth 280mm x height30mm
Tags: Stone, simple, tea tray, Oriental aesthetics
Production Technology: The design uses PROE to build a 3-dimension model, use CNC to process stone material and use polished fire for surface treatment.From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. and skillfully realize the function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving. The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and breaking through the visual imagination.
Design Challenge: As the hidden outlet is inclined to open slot, CNC machining is difficult to realize itself. But combineing with some manual processing operation would solve the problem perfect.
Research: By studying the process of traditional Chinese tea brewing, the high and low gradient of the tea tray is designed to match the users' daily behaviors and to achieve the goal of natural interaction. As a better kind of natural material for tea disk carrier, stone is more waterproof and wear-resisting than others.
Inspiration: Luxury stone, high-end, scarce, unique, shining with the spirit of jewel.
The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and natural picturesque, breaking through the visual imagination and emanating from the inside out noble sense.
Project Duration: The design began in xiamen in April 2017 and completed in December 2017.
Operation Flow: The teapot is usually placed high and the cup is placed low while making tea. So as to the tea water will flow from high to low through the gradient of the disk height, which provides convenience to use.
Patents: zl201830314677.1
Team Members: gang wang
Image Credits: guokun wang，industrial designer, 2017.