Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo by Florian Beser

Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo by Florian Beser is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Igishushanyo cy'Imitako Competition Category.

BuronzeImitako· 2023

Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo

by Florian Beser

Client: Florian Beser

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Imitako Category

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The Design

About Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo

Gere ni igishishwa cy'ibyombo gikora imirimo myinshi, cyakozwe ku bw'imigikoni n'ibyumba by'ifunguro bito. Ibyombo bya Gere bigira imbonerahamwe isa n'iy'ibisigo mbere y'igishishwa, bityo umwanya w'imbere ugasigara ufite ubusanzwe bwo kubika ibikombe, ibirahure n'ibindi byombo. Igishishwa gikozwe mu giti cy'umwavu, naho ibyombo bikaba byubatswe mu ibumba ryera (porcelain). Gere yicaritswe ku rukuta, kandi imirongo ku giti cyayo irashobora gutembagurwa hasi kugira ngo ukureho ikombo cyangwa ugere ku bikoresho byabikwa. Imiterere y'urusobe rw'imirongo ituma ingano zishobora guhinduka bitewe n'ubunini bw'umuryango. Igikoresho cy'ibyombo gishobora kongererwa ibice bishya uko bikenewe.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Gere Igishishwa cy'Ibyombo ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Gere as the combination of shelf and plates uses its plates to create the relief-like front of the shelf. The thereby free interior space can be used to store more crockery, cups, glasses, etc.
The gridlike structure of Gere allows scalable sizes of the shelf, so that a family can use a bigger Gere than a single household.
Dimensions & Packaging: Gere-plates: 240mm x 240mm x 20mm
Gere-shelf-prototype: 1200mm x 200mm x 1300mm
(the size of the shelf varies, because it can be personalised)
Tags: ceramic, tableware, furniture, multifunctional, wood, shelf, plate, kitchen
Production Technology: To enable the functional interaction of shelf and plates, material properties had to be calculated. The shelf of Gere consists out of oak wood, because it is local, sturdy and insensitive against water. The plates of Gere were concepted using 3D-graphic-software and then 3D-printed. The resulting objects were translated to plaster mold and finally cast in porcelain.
Design Challenge: The project was created during the first year of the corona pandemic. There were a lot of restrictions on the use of workshops and the purchase of materials. During the process, i was challenged with iterations, new processing techniques such as working with a cnc milling machine and calculating material properties such as porcelain-shrinkage and material waste.
Research: During the research process multiple methods such as a survey, a market analysis, interviews with the target group and the user journey map were used.
This resulted in detailed insights about selling points for kitchen-shelfs and plates, storage in kitchens, structuring items in the kitchen and overall interaction points with shelfs and plates.
Inspiration: Housing is becoming smaller. Space has to be used in a meaningful way. People use minimalism to reduce their possessions and multifunctional products to save space.
The inspiration of the project were small kitchen spaces with large shelfs, filled with staples of round plates that leave lots of unused space. The focus of the project was to create a crockery shelf as small as needed by people in small housing.
Project Duration: The project started in early summer 2020 in Aachen and finished in September 2020.
Operation Flow: Gere is ideally hung on the wall in the kitchen or dining room. Individual rows can be folded down to take stored items out of the inside or to remove a plate from the front. The plates have segments so that the main course and the side dish can be placed separately on one plate and thus be transported easily. In addition to the storage space in the front, there is the option of storing more crockery, cups, glasses, etc. on the shelves behind. The crockery set is modularly expandable.
Team Members: Designer Florian Beser
Image Credits: Images: Photographer Janosch Bartsch, Gere, 2020