Arctic Miiska Qaxwada by Wai Ho Cheung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Farnijarka Competition Category.
NaxaasFarnijar· 2017
Arctic Miiska Qaxwada
Client: Wai Ho Cheung
Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Farnijar Category
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About Arctic Miiska Qaxwada
Arctic-ku waa miis kafeega oo leh mowjado firfircooni ah xagga hoose kaas oo dhalinaya dhalanteed muuqaal ah in miiska weli u muuqdo mid guuraya. Shanta walxood ee Shiineeska ah, madowgu waxa ay u dhigantaa cunsurka biyaha sidaa awgeed miiska waxa lagu rinjiyeeyay madow sidoo kale waxa uu xooga saarayaa dhalanteedka muuqaalka ah ee hirarka. Fikradda naqshadeeyaha, bilicda ayaa la mid ah shaqeynta. Sidaa darteed, xariijimaha ayaa mas'uul ka ah shaqeynta fiimyada taageeraya halka hirarka sidoo kale loo isticmaali karo si ficil ah: geesaha sare waxaa loo isticmaali karaa sida CD-yada iyo hirarka waxaa loo isticmaali karaa sida joornaalka.
The Recognition
About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award
Arctic Miiska Qaxwada waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. Arctic Miiska Qaxwada waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. Arctic Miiska Qaxwada si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Arctic is made of painted metal strips with dynamic waves at the base which make the still table appears as moving. The strips and supporting frames are interwoven useful space, as well as the waves underneath can be functional. In this coffee table, aesthetics also means functionality, which is what contemporary design should fulfil in my opinion.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width1200mm x Depth600mm x Height420mm
- Tags
- furniture, coffee table, waves, metal, strips
- Production Technology
- Arctic is a coffee table made of looped metal strips with a wave bent at the bottom of each and fixed by supporting frames. Each strip is placed inversely to others alongside that interweave dynamic waves, like currents in ocean. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding colour to Water element is black. Therefore, the table is painted in black which can also emphasise the visual illusion of the moving currents.
- Design Challenge
- As the combination with those factors is always thought to be the product only appears in utopia, Arctic is created in order to challenge the mission. Incidentally, Arctic is the second version of this project. The first version was designed with 3 types of materials, so the hardest point of this project was to reduce the material types used, at the same time to keep the dynamic outlook and to emphasise it.
- Research
- In nowadays market, customers always demand products to fulfil the combination on 3 aspects: high functionality, low cost and high aesthetics. On the other hand, companies are always asking for products with: high profit, high market share and economy production process.
- Inspiration
- The form is inspired by tidal wave hence the inspiration is conducted to mathematical sinusoidal wave with the keyword, wave. In the meantime, the functionality is inspired by park bench slats; the structure of the slats with gaps in between is considered to be highly functional. In Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding direction to Water element is north. Thus, it is named as the largest ocean in the north, Arctic.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2016 in Hong Kong and finished in April 2016 in Hong Kong.
- Operation Flow
- The metal strips are responsible to in term of both aesthetics and functionality. On the top corners, the strips can be used as CD stands with the supporting frames. Moreover, the waves underneath can be used as a magazine stand. For extra, users can hang a little basket on the supporting frames beside. The dynamic waves at the bottom appear as currents in the ocean, which make the still table seems to be moving hence make the living room vigorous.
- Team Members
- Wai Ho Cheung
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