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Shi Sinia ya Chai by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang

Shi Sinia ya Chai by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Samani Competition Category.


ShabaSamani· 2020

Shi Sinia ya Chai

by Gang Wang and Guokun Wang

Client: Xiamen University of Technology

Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Samani Category

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The Design

About Shi Sinia ya Chai

Shi ni sinia ya chai iliyoundwa kwa ajili ya kutayarisha na kutoa huduma ya chai. Shi inachanganya diski ya jiwe la asili na chasi ya maji ya alumini. Uso wake umegawanywa katika eneo tambarare na eneo bonge, lenye tofauti ya urefu wa milimita 16. Eneo tambarare hubaki kavu na hubeba seti ya chai, wakati eneo bonge hukusanya na kutoa maji yaliyotumika. Bomba la kutolea maji liko katika sehemu ya chini kabisa ya uso wa bonge, hivyo kiwango cha maji kinabaki kuonekana na sinia inaweza kumwagwa kwa wakati unaofaa. Jiwe hilo huundwa kwa kutumia mkato unaodhibitiwa na kompyuta na kumaliziwa kwa mbinu ya kusukuma mchanga (sandblasting).

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award

Shi Sinia ya Chai 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. Shi Sinia ya Chai 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. Shi Sinia ya Chai 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
Tea tray is usually plane and tea water flows everywhere when using under the condition, which brings inconvenience. The design inspiration comes from bridge, which integrates plane & concave and presents the tension of shape. The concave brings height difference, which not only realizes dry and wet depart, but also can be easy to drain water, while cleverly reminding the state of water storage.
Dimensions & Packaging
Product size Width 140mm x Depth 600mm x Height40mm
Package size Width 260mm x Depth700mm x Height80mm
Tags
tea tray, stone design, simple, natural interaction, instinct, light weight, different materials combination
Production Technology
Shi is made of natural stone and aluminum. The natural stone is treated by CNC and water knife cutting molding technology, which surface is realized by sandblasting technology. The aluminum is treated by die drawing and cutting technology, which surface is realized by matte painting.
Design Challenge
The concave curvature of natural stone plate should not only ensure the high efficiency of drainage, and the realization of modeling, but also satisfy the reminding of water level. Through the virtual simulation and physical model test, the radius of curvature of the concave surface is determined to be 212 mm finally.
Research
The tea tray design belongs to the application research, which object is to guide user behavior through the simplest language form, combining with ways of user interview, focusing group, product usability testing, consumer diary.
Inspiration
Shi is a kind of water storage tea tray, which is made of natural stone and metal (aluminum) water chassis, modeling simple. The disk is designed with drop type through the plane with concave surface, with height difference of 1.6 cm. The plane is used as dry areas, the concave as wet areas, which cleverly realizes tea-making scenarios of dry and wet depart. Besides, for the concave is lower, so we can visually see the tea overflowing from the drain, which prompts the user dumping of tea.
Project Duration
The project was started in xiamen in February 2019, completed in xiamen in September 2019 and exhibited in Shanghai in October 2019.
Operation Flow
The flat part of the tea tray is placed with the tea set and the concave part is the operating area. The height difference between the plane surface and concave surface allows an efficient drainage. When the water reaches three quarters of the tank, the user can visually observe the water level from the lowest point of the concave surface to facilitate the timely dumping.
Patents
PATENTS,201930411752.0,Gang Wang,2019,China
Team Members
Guokun Wang
Chenghua Pan
Xinya Feng
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Gang Wang, Shi, 2019.

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