Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa by Elif Gunes is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mea Fa'aopoopo Meafale Competition Category.

UʻameaMea Fa'aopoopo Meafale· 2020

Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa

by Elif Gunes

Client: Atılım University

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Mea Fa'aopoopo Meafale Category

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The Design

About Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa

O Gunes ose au'ilagi faitotoa na mamanuina mo faitotoa i totonu o fale. E loka le faitotoa e le au'ilagi e aunoa ma se ki. E u'u e le tagata fa'aoga le li'o susulu ma liliu i le itu taumatau po'o le itu tauagavale. O se moli mumu e fa'aali mai ai le tulaga loka, ae o se moli lanumeamata e fa'aali mai ai le tulaga tatala. O le tino e faia i le alumini na fa'a-die cast ma se ata pa'u fa'apalapala, ma e mafai ona fa'aluaina ina ia fetaui ma le teuga i totonu. O laina fa'apotopoto e sosolo mai i se totonugalemu e tasi ma e fa'aatagia ai le gaioiga o le liliu. O le lautele atoa e 180 mm, ae o le li'o susulu e 60 mm le lautele.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Gunes Au'ilagi Faitotoa ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This door handle design offers a blend of ergonomic, innovative, aesthetic and high-tech design approaches.
Unlike traditional door locking systems, it is a fixture with an ergonomic locking system supported by colored light without using keys. To open or lock the door, it is enough just to grasp the illuminated circle by hand and turn it to the right or left. The design is formed by circular lines that refer to this turning action and are distributed from a single center.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total width 180mm * 55mm * Height from floor to center 110mm. The diameter of the circle in the lock system is 60mm. The radius of the semicircle that forms the base of the fixture is 15 cm. For the colored lights that make up the lock system, there is a battery socket right inside the full circle.
Tags: Door handle, Technology, Ergonomics, Innovative design, Built environment, Furniture accessory
Production Technology: Die casting aluminum for door handle body with brushed texture and can be dyed to any color according to personal preferences. In this way it offers different user experiences and allows personalization. Thus, it can become a part of interior environment with the shaping of the user where she lives in. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Design Challenge: The big challenge of the design was to design a door handle as a built-in fixture with a high-tech visual properties that reflects the innovative design approach used in daily products such as telephone, music listening devices. In addition, it is critical to design a door handle system that locked without using a key by just turning a circular piece that informing the user with colored light.
Research: Today, compared to past, technology-friendly products perceived warmer and more welcoming feeling. This door handle provides a high-tech, innovative and aesthetic visual approach to a built-in. Without using a key, the door is locked by a simple turning movement of an illuminated circle and color of the light give clue whether the door is locked. Red led light color used to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state in line with the universal acceptance.
Inspiration: Nowadays, the technological equipment of almost every product we use frequently in our daily lives increases.
The inspiration was come out with the idea that not only portable devices designed with technological approach but also the possibility of designing a built in element fixture of the environment we live in can have an innovative and user-friendly effect.Designing a door handle to give a new identity to the use of the doors and make it a part of built environment is the basic inspiration
Project Duration: The idea of designing the project started in December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.
Operation Flow: This door handle design allows user an ergonomic use of a lock door system. The door the door is locked by simply turning the illuminated circle without using a key. By the light provided with the apparatus, it is understood whether the door is locked or not. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Team Members: Elif Gunes