The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli in Tlaxcalchihualoni, Tlacualtlapechtli, Atliloni ihuan Tlecuilchihualli Tlachihchihualiztli Competition Category.

TepoztliTlecuilchihualli· 2020

The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli Winner in Tlecuilchihualli Category

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The Design

About The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl

In Grand ce tepalcatl caxitl in tetl, motlalia īpampa in tlein tlachīhualli in Chīna tēcuitlātl tea. In tlein huel nacaztli motlālia ic tliltic tetl, īhuān ītech motēca ce tetl in patiyoh tlein motlalia īpan in "golden section" (in cualli tlacuahcualli). In caxitl īxco motlālia ic ce mahuiztic ehcotl in tlein pehua ihuan tlami, in cualli ihuan in ahmo cualli. In ātl huālquīza in cualli tlācpac, in cāmpa in tepozcaxitl (teapot) motlālia, ihuān yauh in ahmo cualli, in cāmpa in caxitl motlālia, ihuān niman quīza itech ce ichtaca ōhtli. In tetl motlālia ic CNC tlachīhualiztli īhuān oc ce tlachīhualiztli in māitl, ihuān īxco motlaxcaloa.

The Recognition

About the Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli

The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl ca in quicuic in Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli, tlamahuizoliztli tlen momaca in cualli dizayno in quitlalia in tlen monequi ipan tequitl ihuan tlachihualiztli in quimaca in cualli tlachihualli. In quicuicah Tepoztli quinextia in hueyi tlamatiliztli, toltecayotl ihuan ihuelitiliztli intlachihuanime. Ca quinequi in The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl ca tlazohtli, mahuiztic, yancuic ihuan motequiuhtia. Ni dizayno in quicuic Tepoztli quihuelitia in tlamatiliztli ihuan quipia chicahualiztli tlen tepoztli. The Grand Tepalcatl Caxitl in Tetl quicualtia in nemiliztli ihuan quihuelitia in cemanahuac ica cualli.

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.