Press Release
Seda Palanduz Receives the A' Design Award for Eclipse Touch Control Panel in Building Materials and Construction Components Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Seda Palanduz for building materials and construction components design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components Design category for Eclipse Touch Control Panel by Seda Palanduz, designed for Palanduz Tasarım. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding Eclipse Touch Control Panel
Eclipse is a wall mounted touch control panel for smart home systems. The panel manages connected devices through an intuitive touch screen, a mobile application and voice assistants, offering comfort, safety and energy saving. The body is made of special aluminum profiles, machined on CNC benches and sanded by hand. Nine textures are available across metallic and granite finishes, applied with three coating methods. The form joins angular geometry with soft organic curves, and two screen sizes are produced.
About Seda Palanduz
Stepping into an unexplored world, which I feel in every new design project… The beginning of a process where excitement is not over… Enlightenment of the unknown with a fleeting of millions of new learners and then a focus on one and the other. The dynamism of design never ends. For me, design is not a production but a way of understanding life. It is life, it is life itself.
Award Record
This recognition makes Seda Palanduz a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Building Materials and Construction Components Design Award
The A' Building Components Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good building components by best brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to building material manufacturers, building material brands, construction product designers and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include bricks, beams, windows, doors, insulation materials and roofing materials. Awarded building components designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/building-components
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/122328
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/122328
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!122328
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/303190
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.core.com.tr
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Eclipse Touch Control Panel
- Function
- Touch Control Panel
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Palanduz Tasarım
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Seda Palanduz
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #122328
Credits
- Team
- tuna palanduz
- Image Credits
- erhan kilimcigöldelioğlu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It creates a luxurious atmosphere that stimulates the senses with its refined design language. It represents the balance between logic and emotion. It embraces natural organic forms within geometric forms shaped with meticulous simplicity. Eclipse catches a unique harmony in your place with its regular and angular, round and soft forms.
- Inspiration
- It's fun with the idea that all future homes will be smart homes. It makes the easy integrator's job easier. It creates a luxurious atmosphere that energizes the senses with its refined design language. It represents the balance between logic and emotion. It embraces organic forms within geometric forms shaped with meticulous simplicity. Its regular and angular, at the same time round and soft form creates a unique harmony in your space.
- Research
- A focus group has been created, general trends and building trends have been evaluated, a return to nature has come to the fore. There was a categorical gap in the upper segment product groups. In the upper segment, products are metal cased and forms are generally cubic. In order to break the cubic form perception, it is aimed to decompose with a fluid, organic form. Products are made to look thinner when hanging on the wall. Covering types symbolizing the return to nature have been chosen.
- Challenge
- It took the process of achieving the perfect finished product in the part machined on CNC and its coating. The surface to improve the surface of a country that is a part of Turkey is not part of the final product production. Creating quality and turning it into a standard… It was not easy to fully process the organic outer shell. Numerous prototypes have been tested on different materials and the most suitable 6000 series material for mass production is given for reading. When the profile had to be molded, silicon accumulation occurred in the coating.
- Realization and Technology
- Considering the body material as we have an advanced industry in metalworking. Special aluminum profiles are used to solve the coating problem. Body; It is processed on cnc benches and sanded by hand work, resulting in a perfect final product. It can be customized according to his taste with 9 different textures under different metallic and granite headings of 3 different coating methods. It fits any decor and is timeless.
- Operation and Interaction
- Eclipse; It offers comfort, safety and saving always ready to use with its intuitive touch screen. With the mobile app, you can manage all connected devices without leaving your couch or at home. It is customized during the planning phase and has a software that develops project oriented solutions. Its integration with voice control assistants allows you to control all connected devices with your voice. you can control home appliances produced in the Internet of Things concept.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in march 2019 in İzmir and finished in August 2020 in izmir, and prototype model was exhibited in Integrated Systems Europe on February 2019
- Specifications
- eclipse 7inch dimension 127mmx53mmx197mm( with flush part) eclipse 10inch dimension:250mmx53mmx169mm( with flush part)
- Keywords
- easy mounting,highend finishes, smart, lux, powerful hardware, KNX ecosystem, remote controller, intercom client, server of core smart home
