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Tamsa Bank Duit by Jose Roca

Tamsa Bank Duit by Jose Roca is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Gangsa in Reka Bentuk Perabot Competition Category.


GangsaPerabot· 2020

Tamsa Bank Duit

by Jose Roca

Client: Jose Roca Studio

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Perabot Category

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The Design

About Tamsa Bank Duit

Tamsa ialah bank duit yang direka untuk kegunaan rumah. Tamsa terdiri daripada dua bahagian, iaitu sebuah vas yang menyimpan duit syiling dan sebuah pinggan yang berfungsi sebagai penutup. Pinggan tersebut dipegang pada kedudukannya oleh tiga magnet neodymium dan boleh diubah kedudukannya untuk mengubah penampilan produk ini. Vas diperbuat daripada tanah liat hitam kelabu (matte), manakala pinggan diperbuat daripada keluli yang melalui proses mandian elektrolitik untuk menghasilkan kemasan menyerupai loyang. Penutup getah di dalam vas melindungi produk daripada duit syiling yang jatuh. Saiz keseluruhan ialah 250 mm x 250 mm x 90 mm. Bentuknya mengimbau kembali legenda El Dorado dan ritual persembahan budaya Muisca.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Tamsa Bank Duit ialah pemenang A' Design Award Gangsa, pengiktirafan yang amat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk cemerlang yang dicirikan oleh kreativiti, kecerdikan dan ketajaman fikiran. Pemenang Gangsa ialah artifak yang amat mahir dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imaginasi dan akal budi pereka bentuknya. Tamsa Bank Duit diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Gangsa ini merangkumi amalan terbaik dalam seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi, dan cemerlang dalam perhatiannya terhadap butiran. Tamsa Bank Duit memenuhi keperluan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Tamsa's main purpose is to serve as a case for those coins we collect in our day by day journey in the most elegant and display full way. While most of the money banks are made to hide their purpose, Tamsa becomes a center piece that encourage the owner to make an offering to his savings.
Dimensions & Packaging
The main dimensions for this project are: 250 mm x 250 mm x 90 mm, decomposed into two main components, the base that is made out of black matte clay which dimensions are 244 mm x 244 mm x 80 mm, and a dish made out of steel with an electrolytic bath that give the brass finish, it's dimensions are 250 mm x 250 mm x 60 mm.
Tags
elegant, savings, offering, collect, essential, decorative, contemporary, home, ceramic, interior
Production Technology
Tamsa's main material are clay and galvanized steel with a electrolytic bath that give it's brass alike finish for its two main elements (the dish and the vase). But in addition this project count with other two additional elements that appeal more to the function, one of these is the rubber cover inside the vase, set there to protect the product from the coins that will be falling in, and second, a set of three neodymium magnets that help to fit the dish with the vase, making the product more safe in its manipulation.
Design Challenge
The main challenges in the development of Tamsa was defining the best way to abstract and represent many concepts of a culture that merge with myths and bring them together into a timeless context with a piece that results intuitive and meaningful to the user.
Research
To develop Tamsa, the main focus was to create a product inspired in one of South America most important pre Columbian cultures, the Muiscas, yet transcendent in a way that can be placed in any context and still be understood in its meaning and function. Analyzing multiple aspects of their culture, myths, legends and traditions through comparison tables was determined that the El Dorado legend could be the best reference to start working. With the help of focus groups and checking on traditional manufacturing methods Tamsa was born.
Inspiration
Tamsa means offering in Chibcha, a South American tribe that had a ritual where the heir to the throne got covered in gold and emeralds to then get washed in the guatavita lagoon as an offer to the gods. The Spanish conqueror Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada was the first to witness this, giving origin to the El Dorado legend, a city covered in gold. Tamsa is a memory between the ritual and the myth that recreate that act of offering for a better future in the most elegant way.
Project Duration
This is a project that starter as an idea back in May 2018, was left as a simple sketch until June 2019 when the prototyping started after multiple tests, back and forwards, the product is starting production by October 2019.
Operation Flow
Tamsa consists of two parts, the vase where the money is stored and the dish that works as a lid that protect the valuables. This second is secured with a magnetic system that allow to reposition it over the vase to create different aspects of the same product depending on the environment where is placed.
Team Members
Jose Roca
Image Credits
Jose Roca Studio, 2019.

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