Study on Aqua with Sustainable Furniture Design

물(Aqua)을 이용한 지속가능한 가구디자인에 대한 연구

  • Kang, Hyun-Dae (Department of Furniture Design, Sangmyung University)
  • 강현대 (상명대학교 조형예술학부 가구조형)
  • Received : 2011.12.23
  • Accepted : 2012.01.10
  • Published : 2012.01.25

Abstract

Sustainable furniture designs are expressed through reutilization, reuse or redesign of the whole of part of natural materials and existing products. These designs contain natural emotions and show those propensities such as uncertainty, integrity, essentiality and experimental natures. Designs that use natural materials such as wood, bamboo, cork, plants, stones and water have sufficient beauty in themselves and thus these materials are not specially processed but their essence is pursued in those designs. Of those materials, the natural material water is used to pursue the essence of aqua while presenting a new furniture design through an experimental method. The circularity of aqua shares its meaning with the circularity of sustainable designs. In addition, the liquidity of aqua will be grafted onto IT technology to express variable shapes in order to present a new direction of furniture designs.

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