Cornnie Viti vya Kona by Wen-Hsin Tu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Samani Competition Category.
DhahabuSamani· 2021
Cornnie Viti vya Kona
by Wen-Hsin Tu
Client: Wen-Hsin Tu
Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award Winner in Samani Category
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About Cornnie Viti vya Kona
Cornnie ni mfululizo wa viti uliobuniwa kwa ajili ya nafasi za kona. Mfululizo huu una vipande vitatu ambavyo vinapima milimita 1200 kwa 700 kwa 850 vinapowekwa pamoja. Kila kiti kimetengenezwa kwa mbao za plywood zinazopindika, zilizogundishwa na kubanwa kwenye kalibu iliyochongwa kwa mashine ya CNC. Miguu iliyopinda inaunganisha kila kiti na kona na kupendekeza njia mpya za kutumia nafasi hiyo. Cornnie huwawezesha watumiaji kupumzika katika maeneo ya kona na kujitengenezea nafasi ya kibinafsi kiasi bila kujenga ukuta kati yao. Lengo ni kutoa mahali tulivu pa kujitenga ndani ya mazingira ya wazi yanayotumiwa kwa pamoja.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award
Cornnie Viti vya Kona ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kuu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya daraja la kwanza, ya ajabu na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Dhahabu ni kazi bunifu mno, zenye maono makubwa na za kung'aa kwa umaridadi zinazoakisi kipaji, hekima na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Cornnie Viti vya Kona inatarajiwa kuwa uvumbuzi unaosifiwa sana, wa kuweka mielekeo na wa kihistoria unaoleta thamani isiyo na kifani. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award ni mradi wa kustaajabisha na unaoheshimika unaonufaisha sana na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Cornnie Viti vya Kona huzua hisia kali za hamu, huamsha shauku, huhimiza ubunifu na hutuvutia.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A seating series designed for corner spaces, presenting a solitary moment that conveys the message, everyone needs space for themselves. Users can find comfortable corner spaces through the use of the seating and can create a relatively personal space there, without building a wall between each other. The furniture also shows that we don‘t always need to be proactive in seeking interaction, but can take a step back and make ourselves comfortable.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1200mm*700mm*850mm
(all three pieces putting together) - Tags
- Stool, Seating, Corner, Stair, Windowsill, Retreat, Solitary, Seclusion, Interaction, Get Along With
- Production Technology
- bendable plywoods were being glued and pressed on the mould that milled by CNC
- Design Challenge
- To figure out how to connect people and the corner spaces is the hardest part. There aremanyways that wecould sit in the corner spaces. But what’s the connection between people, object (seating) and space? And then, I come up with the ideas, the curved legs of the chairs. This relationship between object and space create dialogue between themselves, and leads to the specific characters of the objects. These characteristics also seem to hint to the user how they can use the space in a novel way. The process empowers the users to experience their environment with a new perspective.
- Research
- I tried to sit in every corner space that I could find to experience how we could see and feel a room with different perspectives. And then I made some miniatures of spaces and objects to find out which element I can extract from the spaces to connect the design strongly with the corners. After the connection between object and space is bounded, I made some 1:1 prototypes of stools with curved legs and put them in certain positions to observe how people interact with them. A clear concept of the relationship between people, objects and spaces is then developed.
- Inspiration
- The spaces between public and private are becoming more open as time goes on. The people who use these in-between spaces are diverse. The interactions in these spaces enrich our everyday lives and provides inspiration, but also lead to stressful situations due to the lack of places to retreat. CORNNIE builds on these observations. Users can feel comfortable in corner spaces through the use of the seating and create a relatively personal space there without building a wall between each other.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2018 in Berlin and finished in October 2019 in Berlin, and was exhibited in the Berlin University of the Arts Design Master Graduation Show
- Operation Flow
- The seatings play an important role, they create an interface between people and space. This interrelationship leads to the specific characters of the objects, and these characteristics also seem to hint to the user how they can use the space in a novel way. The process empowers the users to experience their environment with a new perspective.
- Patents
- Design © Wen-Hsin Tu
- Team Members
- Wen-Hsin Tu
- Image Credits
- Fotos © Shih-Hsien Chan, Wen-Hsin Tu
Video Music © Shih-Hsien Chan
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