Trolley Coaster Instalație by Chih-Kang Chu

Trolley Coaster Instalație by Chih-Kang Chu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronz in Arte Performative Competition Category.

BronzArte Performative· 2021

Trolley Coaster Instalație

by Chih-Kang Chu

Client: Cultural Affairs Department of PINGTUNG County Government

A' Design Award de Bronz Winner in Arte Performative Category

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The Design

About Trolley Coaster Instalație

Trolley Coaster este o instalație dinamică creată pentru o expoziție de design în Pingtung, Taiwan. Două șine supraetajate, suprapuse, poartă cărucioare de cumpărături în jurul unui spațiu de 6600 de metri pătrați, conectând șase zone tematice de expoziție. Cărucioarele în mișcare evocă imaginea și sunetul unui supermarket. Șinele au fost proiectate și realizate de tehnicieni specializați în construcția cărucioarelor de scenă pentru teatrul de păpuși cu mănușă. Cărucioarele au fost împrumutate de la o companie de retail și returnate pentru uz public după încheierea expoziției. Motoarele, roțile și șinele au fost reutilizate pentru cărucioarele de scenă din teatrul de păpuși, reducând astfel costurile și deșeurile.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronz

Trolley Coaster Instalație a câștigat A' Design Award de Bronz, o recunoaștere extrem de prestigioasă acordată designurilor remarcabile care se disting prin creativitate, ingeniozitate și istețime. Câștigătorii Bronzului sunt artefacte din plin pricepute și izbitor de creative, care atestă experiența vastă, imaginația și resursele designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Trolley Coaster Instalație să fie un obiect foarte apreciat, admirat și prețuit, remarcabil de profesionist și inovator. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Bronz încorporează cele mai bune practici din artă, știință, design și tehnologie și este excelent prin atenția la detalii. Trolley Coaster Instalație satisface splendid nevoile, atinge dorințele, vrăjește sentimentele și stârnește curiozitatea.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The dynamic installation, Trolley Coaster, was a joint effort between the government and the public. The tracks were designed and produced by glove puppetry stage cart technicians. The Pingtung County Government and Taiwan Design Center collaborated with a private corporation to borrow trolleys for the installation, lowering costs and potential waste of resources. All trolleys part of the trolley coaster will be safely returned to Carrefour after the exhibit to continue serving the public.
Dimensions & Packaging: The main venue is 6600 m2.
The space is quite large, even though there are six themed exhibitions in the area, it still looks a little empty. Therefore, using two passing across tracks, the trolleys surround the entire exhibition area to connect all the themed exhibitions.
Tags: Trolley Coaster, dynamic installation, Taiwan Design Expo, Pingtung, Chu Chih-Kang
Production Technology: Many large exhibits produce a large amount of waste which is why this time, we chose to take advantage of materials that could largely be recycled and reused. As the exhibit would only last for two weeks, we had already planned for where everything will go after the exhibit in the very early stages of planning. We’ve already found a home for the trolleys, scaffolds, motors, tracks, wheels, and canvas.
The trolleys were borrowed from private corporation – Carrefour. All trolleys part of the trolley coaster will be safely returned to Carrefour after the exhibit to continue serving the public. The tracks were designed and produced by glove puppetry stage cart technicians. The motors of trolleys and the wheels and tracks will be reused for puppetry stage cart. It could lower costs and potential waste of resources.
Design Challenge: The Trolley Coaster is like a roller coaster in an amusement park, attracting people to the exhibition; at the entrance, it is the focus of vision and becomes an important visual for the people to check in; when the people enter the exhibition, the roller coaster becomes a series of links In the background of each exhibition area, the elevated track has invisibly partitioned and visited the exhibition venue.
Research: Trolley Coaster not only solves the problem of space use, strengthens the concept of exhibition, but also increases the topicality of the exhibition and improves the publicity effect.
Shopping in the supermarket is a common experience. The dynamic installation evokes the memory of the supermarket visually and acoustically, echoing the local enthusiasm of Pingtung, bringing the design expo closer to the public.
Inspiration: Trolley Coaster evokes the happiness and anticipation of shopping in the supermarket before the holiday. Two tracks that sometimes overlapping and trolleys winding down the tracks like roller coasters in a theme park. Visitors will be able to see the trolleys coasting down the tracks but also hear the sounds of the trolley which reminds them of a supermarket thus transforming the design expo into a happy and vibrant Super South Supermarket.
Project Duration: The project design process started in June 2019 and finished in August 2019.
The construction started in August 2019 and finished at 1st October.
Taiwan Design Expo’19 started from 5th October to 20th October to public.
There were a total 4.25 million visitors, which breaks the records in the number of visitors of Taiwan Design Expo.
Team Members: Design Director: Chih-Kang Chu
Designer: Meng-Hung Tsai
Executive Designer: Shin Yu
Design Consultant: Yao-Chou Yu
Image Credits: Photographer Kuo-Min Lee, Trolley Coaster, 2019