Kotiso Meza ya Kula by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Samani Competition Category.
ShabaSamani· 2025
Kotiso Meza ya Kula
Client: Vetreria Malagoli
Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Samani Category
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About Kotiso Meza ya Kula
Kitu hiki kinawakilisha miji miwili mikuu ya mwaka wa kimataifa wa kioo: Milan na Venice. Milan imewakilishwa na jiometria na uwazi wa uso wa juu na msingi, mstari wake wa majengo ambao katika miaka ya hivi karibuni umeshuhudia mabadiliko haya yakiwa na kioo kama kitu kikuu katika majengo ya maumbo mbalimbali yanayoelekea mbinguni kama vile katika Piazza Gae Aulenti na City Life
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award
Kotiso Meza ya Kula ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Kotiso Meza ya Kula inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. Kotiso Meza ya Kula hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This object represents the two protagonist cities of the international year of glass. Milan and Venice
Milan represented with the geometry and transparency of the top and base, its skyline which in recent years has seen this transformation with glass as the protagonist in the buildings of various shapes thrown towards the sky such as in Piazza Gae Aulenti and City Life.
the object was included in the precious ADI DESIGN INDEX 2023 and used as a symbol for the International Year of Glass 2022 in Milan and Venice - Dimensions & Packaging
- dimensions 100 L 180 P cm with a height of 75 cm slabs thickness of 8 mm
- Tags
- table, dinning, glass, Venezia, Milano, MIlano Glass Week, Italian Glass Week,
- Production Technology
- The glass blocks are subjected to a heating treatment, and are immersed in water, causing them to shatter into small pieces.
With the recovered pieces, small agglomerates of glass are created which are placed in a melting furnace.
The table top and the base are produced in extra-clear Float glass 8 mm thick thermally tempered and subsequently worked on the edges with a polished edge grinding. - Design Challenge
- the challenge was to combine two similar materials, colored glass and float glass, achieving a union that generates an effect of color and transparency, inspired by the colors of the Venice lagoon and the landscape of Milan at dawn
- Research
- the research carried out for this project was to represent with glass a symbolic object for the Italian capitals of design in the international year of glass. create a bridge that combines design, art and technology in a single object. combine artistic glass with Float technical glass with new technologies.
- Inspiration
- Milan with transparency and geometry Venice with plays of color that here become drops of the lagoon fused on the tempered glass float plate, every shape, gesture and color has its own meaning.
The transparency of flat glass and the transparency of colored glass with colors inspired by the play of light at dawn on the sea of the Venice lagoon. - Project Duration
- the project started in Milan in April 2022, carried out in Modena at the headquarters and finished in August 2022 at the company headquarters
- Operation Flow
- it is a table and can be used as a dining table or a desk
- Patents
- ADI DESIGN INDEX 2023
- Image Credits
- image 1 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 2 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 3 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 4 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 5 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
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