Avalanche 人造石英石台面 by Esra Arici is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 制造与加工机械设计 Competition Category.

铁机械· 2021

Avalanche 人造石英石台面

by Esra Arici

Client: Belenco® Quarz Surfaces - Peker Yuzey tasarımları A.S.

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 机械 Category

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The Design

About Avalanche 人造石英石台面

Avalanche（雪崩）是一款半透明人造石英石台面材料，适用于厨房、浴室以及墙面与地面铺装。其外观以天然缟玛瑙（玉石）为灵感，每一块板材上都贯穿着修长的纹理脉络。该表面具有透光性，在其下方设置光源，即可将板材转变为发光元素。Avalanche 采用回收水晶石英、玻璃与树脂制成，经真空压制成型，并以金刚石磨料抛光。材料无孔隙、耐刮擦，且符合食品接触安全要求。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Avalanche 人造石英石台面是 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Avalanche 人造石英石台面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。Avalanche 人造石英石台面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

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

Unique Properties: Its innovation derives from the natural onyx stone look. Transparency of the surface and usability of it as a lighting unit, makes it new in the market and unique. It is also a product that we believe it will enhance the Belenco brand recognition in the market and by the end users. By its long veins, it suits the latest trends and be ahead of its competitors with the onyx looking effect.
Dimensions & Packaging: Due to its chemical formulation including recycled quartz, glass and resin combined to compact slab shape vibro-comprehension under vacuum press. We are offering healthy, hygienic, and transparent lighting surfaces. Avalanche is made by Belenco with the latest high technology engineered stone fully automatic robotic producing lines to serve the interior designer more sustainable natural look compound stones. Slabs have a shape of 330,165,2cm thick.
Tags: Belenco Avalanche, Onyx look, Belenco Quartz Surfaces, Transparent Engineered Stone, Transparent Quartz Surface, Peker Yüzey Tasarımları, Transparent Stone
Production Technology: Quartz engineered stones are aesthetical components for kitchens, bathrooms, wall & floor coverings. Avalanche offers an alternative to the user in a way to feel the exclusivity of lightened atmosphere throughout a transparent engineered quartz stone. With this eco-friendly, sustainable and luxurious piece of art; we both satisfy the user needs and providing them Avalanche. Contains recycled crystal quartz, glass and recycled water from its own polishing process and energy from renewable sources
Design Challenge: Avalanche is one of the most durable materials due to the quartz mineral,which is one of the hardest minerals after diamond.Avalanche, 90 % recycled quartz content adds superior properties to the structure and surface durability, scratch and acid,basic alkaline and chemical resistance and increase the strength four times than onyx,granite and marble.The vein pattern design sustainable every slab due to robotic process whereas the natural stones pattern changed every block cut to size as slab.
Research: Avalanche is a practical,user friendly and a constantly efficient product.When mounted as a quartz surface (and if intended a light source placed to its underneath),its hygienic,antibacterial,has strong scratch resistance (quartz 7 Mohs scale strength),chemical resistance and no water absorption due to non-porosity.It has a long-life cycle and high impact resistance,only necessary change would be lightning source in the upcoming years.Avalanche will remain shiny and new just like the first day.
Inspiration: Avalanche quartz surface is the new interpretation of natural onyx stone,which inspires translucent appearance to illuminating interior places. It is possible to create lighted areas in your kitchen,bathroom,other living areas by simply using this design.Avalanche countertops are the best sanitary solutions where the hygiene needed by reason of it is antibacterial,healthy for food contact,also healthy for indoor air quality without any chemical exposure on people.
Project Duration: The Avalanche Project started at 2020 in Belenco research and development laboratory pilot plant, start up in 2020 at the production and exhibited to the market at 2021. Since 2021 to these time Belenco Avalanche is on the market of mainly USA.
Operation Flow: Natural quartz minerals and resin composed in mixers. The mixture transport directly to distribution unit. Vein effect unit gives a marble look pattern. Mixture go to the vibration press under vacuum and pressed. The slab shaped to length of 310 cm and the width of 152 cm and the thickness of 20 cm, cured at the oven, polished with diamond abrasives to give them higher glosses finishes and final quality control area separated the slabs to their quality and pick up glossy surface face to face, bundled and transport to the clients.
Team Members: Esra Arici
Duygu Ölmez
Arman Altınyay