Vortex Tungku Api by Dario Sousa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ameh in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

AmehParabot· 2021

Vortex Tungku Api

by Dario Sousa

Client: Vortex

A' Design Award Ameh Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Vortex Tungku Api

Vortex adolah tungku api gantuang nan dirancang untuak ruang publik jo pribadi. Bantuak asimetris Vortex marujuak ka deformasi ruang dan maagiah tungku api ko kahadiran nan kuek. Vortex manawarkan duo pilihan pambakaran: kayu tradisional atau pambaka bioetanol otomatis. Versi bioetanol maagiah api nan sabana tanpa asok, abu, atau bau. Vortex dibuek dari baja karbon, dibantuak jo pamotongan laser dan pangelasan, sarato diakhiri jo lapisan bubuak tahan paneh. Kaluaran paneh nyo bakisar antaro 5,9 sampai 10,6 kilowatt.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ameh

Vortex Tungku Api adolah pamenang A' Design Award Ameh, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan kelas partamo, mangaguikan jo cumelang. Pamenang Ameh adolah ciptaan nan sangaik inovatif, bapandangan jauah jo baka-kilauan mamikaik nan mancaminkan bakaik, kabijaksanaan jo kahebatan parancangnyo. Vortex Tungku Api dipaokan manjadi panemuan nan sangaik dipuji, panetap kacenderungan jo monumental nan mambari nilai nan alun pernah ado. Rancangan nan manang Ameh iko adolah proyek nan mangaguikan jo dihargai nan maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Vortex Tungku Api malahiakan karinduan nan kuek, mambangkikkan gairah, mandorong kreativitas jo mamikaik kito.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Breaking with any definite convention of beauty, Vortex assumes itself as Shelter's brand image, establishing a new paradigm of fire harmony.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions: 1620 mm x 595 mm x 600 mm
Package: 1800 mm x 700 mm x 700 mm
Heat Output: 5,9 - 10,6 KW
Tags: Fireplace, Bioethanol, Assimetric, Metal, Suspended
Production Technology: This design was created by hand drawing followed by CAD tech drawing.
Its realization consist in laser cutting and welding technology, and finished by thermo resistent powder coating paintingover its main material, carbon steel.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenges in the Vortex design process are related to the need to develop a fireplace that at the same time fulfills its main function, heating, but without ever neglecting its aesthetic and sustainable aspect, fulfilling all the legal requirements for integration in public and private spaces.
Research: Most of the research carried out in the conception of Vortex, concerns the legal aspects and certification of fireplaces to be integrated in public and private places.
As for the research related to design, it was carried out in order to develop a wood combustion product, in which it is possible to insert an automatic Bioethanol burner. With regard to its visual aspect, Vortex is inspired by the strength of a black hole to suck all the material within reach, resulting in its asymmetrical shape.
Inspiration: The Vortex by Shelter is customized by the lightness of its asymmetrical form, referring to an imagery of space deformation, resulting in its striking image and dominant presence.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2018 in Porto and finished in March 2019 in Porto, and was exhibited in Shelter - New Showroom Presentation in March 2019.
Operation Flow: Voetx presents two different combustion solutions:
Traditional Wood and with a Bioethanol Automatic Burner.
Bioethanol Vortex are a equipment that combine design with the comfort created by the real flame, with the added value of not emitting smoke, they do not create ash or smells.
Team Members: Diana Castro
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Diana Castro, Vortex; 2019
Image #2: Photographer Diana Castro, Vortex; 2019
Image #3: Photographer Diana Castro, Vortex; 2019
Image #4: Photographer Diana Castro, Vortex; 2019
Image #5: Photographer Diana Castro, Vortex; 2019