DESIGN NAME: Simplicity
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Multifunctional furniture
INSPIRATION: This set of furniture design gets inspiration from China's traditional educational toys, Kong Ming Lock, which is also called The Eight Diagrams Lock or Lu Ban Lock. It is said to been designed by a famous carpenter Lu Ban in ancient China, and then refined by Zhu Ge Liang with the Eight Diagrams. It keeps balance by tenon and mortise joint, without any metal support. It is the manifestation of the Chinese people's great wisdom.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This set of furniture design gets inspiration from China's traditional educational toys, KongMing Lock, which is also called The Eight Diagrams Lock or LuBan Lock. Opening it seems like solving a puzzle, which emphasizes the interaction between the user and the furniture, also enhancing the fun of using furniture. Combined with the modular design of modern design, the whole design' s style looks simple and modern.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: This set of furniture design gets inspiration from China's traditional educational toys, Kong Ming Lock, which is also called The Eight Diagrams Lock or Lu Ban Lock. Opening it seems like solving a puzzle, which emphasizes the interaction between the user and the furniture, also enhancing the fun of using furniture.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The conception of this design started in January 2016 in Anshan,China. The construction started in April,and finished in May in Anshan,China.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The opening and closing ways of this set of furniture design is similar to the ancient Chinese Kong Ming lock structure, the designer accessed to a lot of ancient books.In the material selection,the designer selected the combination of soft and hard wood way, after several tests, choose to use the soft pine to do the organs, with hard Begonia wood to do the structure.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Cabinet One Width 450mm × Depth 500mm × Height 450mm, Cabinet Two Width 600mm × Depth 500mm × Height 350mm, Chair Width 600mm × Depth 750mm × Height 700mm, Clothes hanger Height 1800mm × Width 400mm, Cabinet Three Width 450mm × Depth 500mm × Height 450mm
TAGS: Interactivity, Chinese traditional culture, Interest, Riddle, Kong ming Locking
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Extracted from the four seasons in Kong Mingsuo lock, twenty-four lock in the support and other structures.In this way, the modular design of modern design is combined, and the combination of hardwood and cork is the key point of the design
Support, but in the production of some organs are extremely inappropriate, the design works each side made wooden mortise, hardwood is difficult to complete, finally decided to pine a class of cork as material, at last some structure joined the connector tube; to make the work more stable.
CHALLENGE: In the material selection, the designer selected the combination of soft and hard wood way, after many tests, choose to use the soft pine to do the organs, with hard Begonia wood to do the structure.
ADDED DATE: 2017-04-06 14:39:04
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IMAGE CREDITS: Fei Fan Li, 2016.
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