The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Meafale Umukuka Competition Category.

UʻameaMeafale Umukuka· 2020

The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Meafale Umukuka Category

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The Design

About The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti

O le Grand o se fata lauulu lāuti na fuafuaina mo le faia masani o lāuti Saina. O le tino autū e faia i le maa uliuli, faatasi ai ma se faaselefaga o se maa taua e tuu e tusa ai ma le vaega auro (golden section). O le luga o le fata ua fausia e pei o se foliga fua faavasega e iai se suiga i le va o le maualuga ma le maualalo. E tafe le vai mai le vaega e sili ona maualuga, o le mea e tu ai le fagu lāuti, agai atu i le vaega maualalo, o le mea e tuu ai ipu, ona alu ese lea e ala i se puna natia. O le maa ua fuafuaina e ala i masini CNC faatasi ai ma galuega faalima faaopoopo, ma ua faamalū lelei le luga.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti, 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 The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti 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 The Grand Fata Lauulu Lāuti 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: 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.