Arctic Meja Kopi by Wai Ho Cheung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award Gangsa in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

GangsaParabot· 2017

Arctic Meja Kopi

by Wai Ho Cheung

Client: Wai Ho Cheung

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Arctic Meja Kopi

Arctic adolah meja kopi jo ombak-ombak dinamis di bahagian bawah nan mambuek ilusi visual bahaso meja nan diam tampak bagarak. Dalam konsep Lima Unsur Cino, warna itam bakaitan jo unsur Aia, jadi meja iko dicek jo warna itam untuak mampakuek ilusi visual dari ombak tu. Dalam konsep desainer, estetika samo jo fungsi. Jadi, bilah-bilah tu batagguang jawek untuak fungsi jo rangko panyanggah, sabaliak ombak-ombak tu dapek juo dipakai sacaro praktis: sudut ateh dapek dipakai sabagai tampek CD dan ombak-ombak tu dapek dipakai sabagai tampek majalah.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Arctic Meja Kopi adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Arctic Meja Kopi dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Arctic Meja Kopi mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Arctic is made of painted metal strips with dynamic waves at the base which make the still table appears as moving. The strips and supporting frames are interwoven useful space, as well as the waves underneath can be functional. In this coffee table, aesthetics also means functionality, which is what contemporary design should fulfil in my opinion.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width1200mm x Depth600mm x Height420mm
Tags: furniture, coffee table, waves, metal, strips
Production Technology: Arctic is a coffee table made of looped metal strips with a wave bent at the bottom of each and fixed by supporting frames. Each strip is placed inversely to others alongside that interweave dynamic waves, like currents in ocean. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding colour to Water element is black. Therefore, the table is painted in black which can also emphasise the visual illusion of the moving currents.
Design Challenge: As the combination with those factors is always thought to be the product only appears in utopia, Arctic is created in order to challenge the mission. Incidentally, Arctic is the second version of this project. The first version was designed with 3 types of materials, so the hardest point of this project was to reduce the material types used, at the same time to keep the dynamic outlook and to emphasise it.
Research: In nowadays market, customers always demand products to fulfil the combination on 3 aspects: high functionality, low cost and high aesthetics. On the other hand, companies are always asking for products with: high profit, high market share and economy production process.
Inspiration: The form is inspired by tidal wave hence the inspiration is conducted to mathematical sinusoidal wave with the keyword, wave. In the meantime, the functionality is inspired by park bench slats; the structure of the slats with gaps in between is considered to be highly functional. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding direction to Water element is north. Thus, it is named as the largest ocean in the north, Arctic.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2016 in Hong Kong and finished in April 2016 in Hong Kong.
Operation Flow: The metal strips are responsible to in term of both aesthetics and functionality. On the top corners, the strips can be used as CD stands with the supporting frames. Moreover, the waves underneath can be used as a magazine stand. For extra, users can hang a little basket on the supporting frames beside. The dynamic waves at the bottom appear as currents in the ocean, which make the still table seems to be moving hence make the living room vigorous.
Team Members: Wai Ho Cheung