The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi by Jiangying Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Rino in Hoahoa Taputapu Competition Category.
RinoTaputapu· 2022
The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi
Client: Jiangying Guo
A' Design Award Rino Winner in Taputapu Category
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About The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi
Ko te Turanga Amiorangi he nohoanga i whakaarohia mai i te amiorangi. Ko te hoahoa e urupare ana ki te nekehanga o te tinana, ā, e hangai ana i tētahi taunekeneke hihiko mō te whakatā me te tākaro. He ngāwari, he taea hoki te whakarite te nohoanga me te tuara, nō reira ka whai i ngā tūnga noho me ngā nekehanga e hiahiatia ana e te kaiwhakamahi. Ka taea te panoni te koki i waenganui i te nohoanga me te tuara mai i te 120 tae atu ki te 133 nga tohu. Ko te hanganga he mataono e 61x61x61 henimita. Ka whakamahia te rākau oki mō te anga, te papa rākau mō te nohoanga me te tuara, me te taura kotene mō ngā wāhanga amiorangi. Ko te taura taratara e hanga ana i te whakapiri ki te rākau, e pupuri ana i te nekehanga kia mau tonu te whakahaere me te haumaru.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Rino
Ko The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a The Swing Chair Turanga Amiorangi mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Inspired by the swing, this chair aims to respond with human body movements and create a dynamic interaction with the users - for them to relax and play. The seat and backrest are flexible and adjustable in a way that they are able to follow users’ preferred sitting positions and their movements while sitting. It also has a minimal structure: seat and backrest supported by a simple frame (61x61x61cm), giving the seat floating and chair lightweight.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The chair is in a "perfect cube" structure: 61x61x61cm.
- Tags
- Chair, Sustainable, Playful, Moveable Seats, Swing
- Production Technology
- The material here I used Oak wood for the structure, plywood for the seat and backrest, cotton cord for the swing, and rubber screw to connect the backrest.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of this design is to control the level of movement, which is affected by the design as well as the material. Allowing too much movement would cause a user to fall off the chair. The thick cotton cord has rough texture and thus create good friction with the wood, in this way, it allows the seat to still create movements but in a controlled and safe way.
- Inspiration
- This chair is inspired by the swing. I want to incorporate the playfulness and movement of swing into a chair which is normally considered to have a fixed angle between seat and backrest.
- Project Duration
- This project is completed in Copenhagen in 2017; the duration of design and production took around 2 months.
- Operation Flow
- Both the seat and backrest are adjustable based on user's movement. The angle between the seat and backrest could be adjusted from 120 to 133 degree (please see the image above).
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