6.2 Ontwerpgrepen - Universiteit Twente

[6.15] Davide Mercatali en Paolo Pedrizzetti – ‘Evolutionary
Electric Household Appliance’ broodrooster – 1982, een
van de resultaten van het project ‘Natural Objects’ voor
Alchymia.
[Tabel 6.1] Alessandro Mendini vroeg de
deelnemers aan de workshop ‘Natural
Objects’ rekening te houden met een
hele lijst uitgangspunten, aanwijzingen en
randvoorwaarden. Bovendien kregen ze
nog de instructie mee: ‘to find new concepts,
to incorporate “poetic features”
and to consider how they might give
their designs an industrial appearance.’
(Sato 1988: p.39).
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thirty young architects and designers […] were asked to fulfil the following
conditions:
to make the function seem ambiguous
to design the image of the object and not its function
to put together parts that do not match
to create a general feeling of calm
to change slightly the expected dimensions
to introduce an unexpected element
objects should not be grotesque
to create a feeling of science-fiction suspense
to avoid all Post-Modern features
objects should not be whimsical
to include industrial features in each object
to use soft colours (white, grey, silver, pink, light blue, etc.)
to incorporate soft parts whenever possible
not to overuse decorative additions (three-dimensional [...])
to incorporate both shiny and matt parts
to avoid pointed corners