5x5 Mwenyekiti by Barbara Princic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Samani Competition Category.
FedhaSamani· 2014
5x5 Mwenyekiti
Client: Sijaj Hrastnik
Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award Winner in Samani Category
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About 5x5 Mwenyekiti
Kiti cha 5x5 ni mradi wa kawaida wa kubuni ambapo kiwango cha juu kinatambuliwa kama changamoto. Kiti cha mwenyekiti na nyuma vinatengenezwa na xilith ambayo ni ngumu sana kuumbwa. Xilith ndio malighafi ambayo inaweza kupatikana kwa mita 300 chini ya uso wa ardhi na imetengenezwa na makaa ya mawe. Hivi sasa malighafi nyingi hutupwa mbali. Kwa mtazamo wa mazingira nyenzo hii inazalisha taka kwenye uso wa dunia. Kwa hivyo wazo juu ya muundo wa mwenyekiti lilionekana kuwa la kuchochea sana na ngumu.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award
5x5 Mwenyekiti ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa ya ajabu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya hali ya juu kabisa, ya kupendeza na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Fedha ni kazi zinazong'aa mno na bunifu kupita kiasi zinazoonyesha utaalamu bora, kipaji na busara ya wabunifu wao. 5x5 Mwenyekiti inatarajiwa kuwa kazi nzuri ya kuigwa ambayo ni ya kitaalamu kwa kiasi kikubwa na yenye ubunifu wa kina. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award ni uvumbuzi unaojulikana sana na kupendwa, unaonufaisha na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. 5x5 Mwenyekiti ni kazi inayotamaniwa mno inayochochea hamu, huleta hisia chanya na huzua mshangao na mastaajabu.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The 5x5 chair is a typical design project where the limitation is recognized as a challenge. The chair's seat and the back are made of xilith which is very difficult to be shaped. Xilith is the raw material that can be found 300 meters under the ground surface and is comined with a coal. But it is nither the coal nor the wood. Currently the majority of the raw material is thrown away. From environmental point of view this material generates waste on the earth surface. Therefore the idea about chair design seemed to be very provocative and challenging. The scientific methods of the material's final surface treatment have been explored so if applied properly the final look can be close to that of ebony.
Each chair is unique as neither two tiles look the same. Therefore the chair can have more brown or more black look depending on the tiles collected together. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 470 mm x Depth 540 mm x Hight 840 mm
- Tags
- xilith, tiles, metal, elegant, thin, material innovation, experiment
- Production Technology
- Chair's structure:
- metal tub legs, surface nickel treated
- seat and back support made of laser cutted metal sheet, surface nickel treated
- Xilith tiles, cut, surface treated with linseed oil;
tiles glued on metal sheet surface - Design Challenge
- Material's unique visual properties, physical characteristics and manufacturing limitations were challenging.
The design challenge was simply how to make a chair from little tiles? how to connect them? How to make the underneath seat's metal sheet stiff but yet almost invisible, thin. - Research
- It was all about experimental work with this unique material. The scientific methods of surface treatment were examined years before within Biotechnological Faculty, University of Ljubljana. If the surface is treated properly, the outcome look is similar to ebony.
- Inspiration
- As explained in the project explanation; material's unique visual properties, physical characteristics and manufacturing limitations were challenging.
Xilith is the raw material that is very hard and fragile. Therefore the tile's dimension 5x5 cm is the maximum still acceptable dimension for manufacturing since the material itself is very difficult to be manufactured and shaped. - Project Duration
- The project started in May 2008 and finished in October 2008 in Slovenia. It was exhibited at several exhibitions like
- Month of Design, October 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Reader-friendly Design, January 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- The Design Assembly, May 2010, Graz, Austria
- IDEA Award Winners and Finalists exhibition, August 2010, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan USA
- Charm of wood, spring 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ambient, furniture fair, October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Operation Flow
- It enables very comfortable and ergonomic sitting.
- Team Members
- Barbara Princic, designer
Mr. Miran Drac, technologist - Image Credits
- Images No.1-5, photographer Miha Benedicic, 5x5 chair, 2009.
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