Gunes 门把手 by Elif Gunes is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 家具配件、五金与材料设计 Competition Category.

铁家具配件· 2020

Gunes 门把手

by Elif Gunes

Client: Atılım University

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 家具配件 Category

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The Design

About Gunes 门把手

Gunes 是一款专为室内门设计的门把手。该把手无需钥匙即可锁门,使用者握住发光圆环并向右或向左旋转即可操作。红光表示已上锁状态,绿光表示未上锁状态。主体采用压铸铝制成,表面为拉丝质感,并可根据室内环境进行配色。圆形线条自单一中心向外扩散,呼应旋转的动作。整体宽度为180毫米,发光圆环直径为60毫米。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Gunes 门把手是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Gunes 门把手将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Gunes 门把手因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This door handle design offers a blend of ergonomic, innovative, aesthetic and high-tech design approaches.
Unlike traditional door locking systems, it is a fixture with an ergonomic locking system supported by colored light without using keys. To open or lock the door, it is enough just to grasp the illuminated circle by hand and turn it to the right or left. The design is formed by circular lines that refer to this turning action and are distributed from a single center.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total width 180mm * 55mm * Height from floor to center 110mm. The diameter of the circle in the lock system is 60mm. The radius of the semicircle that forms the base of the fixture is 15 cm. For the colored lights that make up the lock system, there is a battery socket right inside the full circle.
Tags: Door handle, Technology, Ergonomics, Innovative design, Built environment, Furniture accessory
Production Technology: Die casting aluminum for door handle body with brushed texture and can be dyed to any color according to personal preferences. In this way it offers different user experiences and allows personalization. Thus, it can become a part of interior environment with the shaping of the user where she lives in. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Design Challenge: The big challenge of the design was to design a door handle as a built-in fixture with a high-tech visual properties that reflects the innovative design approach used in daily products such as telephone, music listening devices. In addition, it is critical to design a door handle system that locked without using a key by just turning a circular piece that informing the user with colored light.
Research: Today, compared to past, technology-friendly products perceived warmer and more welcoming feeling. This door handle provides a high-tech, innovative and aesthetic visual approach to a built-in. Without using a key, the door is locked by a simple turning movement of an illuminated circle and color of the light give clue whether the door is locked. Red led light color used to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state in line with the universal acceptance.
Inspiration: Nowadays, the technological equipment of almost every product we use frequently in our daily lives increases.
The inspiration was come out with the idea that not only portable devices designed with technological approach but also the possibility of designing a built in element fixture of the environment we live in can have an innovative and user-friendly effect.Designing a door handle to give a new identity to the use of the doors and make it a part of built environment is the basic inspiration
Project Duration: The idea of designing the project started in December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.
Operation Flow: This door handle design allows user an ergonomic use of a lock door system. The door the door is locked by simply turning the illuminated circle without using a key. By the light provided with the apparatus, it is understood whether the door is locked or not. This design uses the universally accepted red led light color to indicate the locked state and green led light color to indicate the unlocked state.
Team Members: Elif Gunes