Marn 酒店设施 by C.H Chang, H.A Chang, Y.Q Luo and S.C Huang

Marn 酒店设施 by C.H Chang, H.A Chang, Y.Q Luo and S.C Huang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award 银奖 in 烘焙用具、餐具、饮具与炊具设计 Competition Category.

银厨具· 2018

Marn 酒店设施

by C.H Chang, H.A Chang, Y.Q Luo and S.C Huang

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 厨具 Category

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The Design

About Marn 酒店设施

从传统台南文化的节日小吃（台湾一个充满文化底蕴的古老城市）中汲取灵感，将它们转变为一套酒店设施，这些系列节日小吃一直被当地人称为“ Marn”，这意味着满足在中国文化中乌龟状的年糕作为洗手液和肥皂盒，绿豆饼作为洗护用品，汤圆甜饺子作为洗手液和bun头。台南黑糖bun头蛋糕作为茶具。台南文化遗产可能会传播到世界各地，因为酒店是推广本地文化的理想平台。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Marn 酒店设施是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Marn 酒店设施将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Marn 酒店设施是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Marn, pronunciation in mandarin means fulfillment in Chinese culture. The design was inspired by cultural heritage related to Tainan traditional local snacks and foods. Wishing to preserve the culture and widespread to the world by transforming the famous local festive snacks into hotel amenities, like; turtle-shaped rice cake into hand soap & soap dish, mung bean cake into toiletries, tang yuan sweet dumpling into hand cream and steamed bun & Tainan brown sugar bun cake into tea set. All were hand crafted in ceramic which looks identical to the festive snacks.
Dimensions & Packaging: Turtle-shaped rice cake / hand soap & soap dish L120mm x W60mm x H16mm
Mung bean cake / toiletries L200mm x W80mm x H10mm
Tang Yuan sweet dumpling / Hand cream L100mm x W100mm x H23mm
Steamed bun & Tainan brown sugar bun cake / tea set L300mm x W300mm x H55mm
Tags: Hotel amenities, Daily necessities, Gift, Ceramics, Cultural Hotel
Production Technology: All were handcrafted.
Material used is white ceramic.
Design Challenge: Most of the hotel amenities typically the same, the most challenging issue in this project is to design a set of amenities derived from local culture festive snacks for The Place, a design hotel brand of Royal Hotels & Resorts, that sets to connect with local cultures of Tainan. Handcrafted pottery, kiln formation and have to be identical to the festive snacks is the hardest part. The team managed to create the products lifelike the real snacks.
Research: Type of Research: Hotel amenities with local culture image
Research Objectives: To preserve and to propagate culture heritage of Tainan festive snacks from local to global.
Methodology: culture study and morphological analysis, Image Scale.
Data Collections: Market Survey, Target User Analysis.
Research Tools: Solidworks, Sketch-Up, 3D Printing.
Production Method: pinching pottery, glazing, kiln formation.
Inspiration: Having inspiration from the festive snacks of traditional Tainan culture, an old city in Taiwan full with cultural heritage; turtle-shaped rice cake, mung bean cake, tang yuan sweet dumpling and steamed bun & Tainan brown sugar bun cake, transforming the snacks image into a set of hotel amenities, Tainan culture heritage could be spread to the whole world as the hotel is a nice platform to promote local culture.
Project Duration: This project started in Sept 2017 in Tainan, estimate to finish in March 2018, having its first appearance in Taiwan Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX) in May 2018.
Operation Flow: Since the set of hotel amenities lifelike the festive snacks, travelers will find them very interesting when checking into the room, eventually they will look for each of the item connected to the cultures behind it. The cultural hotel served as the platform to communicate with travelers from everywhere, allowing them to learn and to feel the culture heritage of Tainan in an interesting way during their stay, could be better appreciated and shared amongst travelers.
Patents: patent pending
Team Members: Instructor: ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChuanHsuan Chang
Designer:HsinAn Chang
Designer:YuQing Luo
Designer:SinCih Huang
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department
Image Credits: Wei-Che Chiang
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Department