Metric - Ganic Sculptural Bench

Furniture Design Award Winner.
Awarded for Good Furniture Design.

Metric - Ganic Sculptural Bench
by Webber (Ping-Chun) Chen

  • Awarded April 15, 2014
  • CLIENT: 'Make It' Exhibition, Victoria University, New Zealand
  • 9.778
With Metric-Ganic Chen explores the notion of how civilization imprints knowledge and how humans have shaped the earth to create culture and history - through this lens, the sculptural bench is explored via the study of natural and mathematical patterns. Differentiating between inorganic and organic forms, the origami appearance of the timber is a representation of human knowledge based on mathematical calculations, which contrasts with the natural grain of the white oak representing the forest and earth.

With Metric-Ganic Chen explores the notion of how civilization imprints knowledge and how humans have shaped the earth to create culture and history - through this lens, the sculptural bench is explored via the study of natural and mathematical patterns. Differentiating between inorganic and organic forms, the origami appearance of the timber is a representation of human knowledge based on mathematical calculations, which contrasts with the natural grain of the white oak representing the forest and earth.

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