Press Release
Teos Surfacing Solution by Esra Arici Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Building Materials and Construction Components Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Esra Arici for building materials and construction components design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Teos Surfacing Solution by Esra Arici, designed for Belenco® Quarz Surfaces - Peker Yuzey tasarımları A.S., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Teos Surfacing Solution
Teos is an engineered quartz surface designed for kitchen countertops and cut-to-size surfacing applications. Teos is made of natural quartz granules and advanced polymers, compacted by vibratory pressing under vacuum, then cured in an oven and polished with diamond abrasives. The surface is nonporous, hygienic and resistant to scratches, chemicals and abrasion, and no annual sealing is needed. The vein pattern and the dual opaque and transparent base recall Bianco Arabescato marble, offering a durable alternative to a stone that is becoming rare.
About Esra Arici
Belenco is a high-tech composite stone company that makes artistic designs. Belenco can the ability to design any kind of natural and unnatural design due to its sophisticated huge two lines. The design and RnD department transforms the art into extraordinary products in a freeway based on these characteristics of the plant.
Award Record
Esra Arici is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/96976
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/96976
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!96976
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/182046
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.belenco.com/en/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Teos Surfacing Solution
- Function
- Surfacing Solution
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray, Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Belenco® Quarz Surfaces - Peker Yuzey tasarımları A.S.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Esra Arici
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #96976
Credits
- Team
- Esra Arıcı, Duygu Ölmez and Arman Altınyay
- Image Credits
- All images are taken by Gökhan Gökmen, our inhouse photographer. Video is taken by Arman Altınyay.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Teos have superior properties such as scratch resistance thanks to process raw materials is quartz minerals hardest material; nonporous due to engineered stone technology. Hygienic and antibacterial surfaces, shiny like diamonds, sustainable every slab, fireproof, higher chemical resistance, higher abrasion, flexural and impact strength, thermal shock and slip resistance and so on never been on natural stones and marble.
- Inspiration
- Teos design is inspired from the natural marble called Bianco Arabescato at Carrara region Italy which is getting each day more rare on earth. Teos have an opaque and transparent dual colour at basement which gives the surface tri-diamentional effect.The vein design inspired from a special marble called Bianco Arabescato. What makes it unique is that, it is the natures interpretation as a marble look design in a more sustainable and durable way of engineered stone. Engineered stone composed of semi precious quartz granules with special polymers.
- Research
- The design data collected from natural Carrara Bianco Arabescato white marble and inspired from its user demand. The design raw materials chosen from most transparent and opaque quartz granules on earth to create dual color transition on the base three diamentional deep effect.Different range of quartz granules set together at the powder quartz and pigments for technical design, developed at the R&D pilot plant. Standard tests apply to the prototype product. Visually and technically design confirmation scale up the design at the plant mass production and the aesthetical checks repeated for final approval.
- Challenge
- Carrara Bianco Arabescato marble is getting harder to find each day and it’s very expensive. Teos derived from this challenge, offers relatively cheaper, sustainable and also a more durable product to the market. Rather than the marble, Teos has stable opaque and tranparant dual color base and very unique log vein patterns on each slab, high chemical, physical and abrasion resistance. Teos is our offer as a better alternative instead of already extincting Carrara Bianco Arabescato marble.
- Realization and Technology
- Teos quartz surfaces are composed of natural quartz aggregates, which is one of the hardest minerals in nature, and advanced polymers, making it hard and resilient, even harder and four times more resistant to flexion than granite. This compacted structure makes Teos very hard and nonporous, one of the most important advantages of the quartz surfaces is that they never need to be waxed for sealing every year whereas natural granite, marble do.
- Operation and Interaction
- Natural quartz minerals and resin composed in mixers. The mixture transport directly to distribution unit. Vein effect unit gives a marble look pattern. Mixture go to the vibration press under vacuum and pressed. The slab shaped to length of 310 cm and the width of 152 cm and the thickness of 20/30 mm (optional acc to the customer wish), cured at the oven, polished with diamond abrasives to give them higher glosses finishes and final quality control area separated the slabs to their quality and pick up glossy surface face to face, bundled and transport to the clients.
- Project Duration and Location
- The Teos Project started at 2017 in Belenco research and development laboratory pilot plant, start up in 2017 at the production and exhibited to the market at 2018. Since 2018 to these time Belenco Teos is on the market (mainly USA).
- Specifications
- Teos is a compound quartz stone. Product dimensions, width 1520 mm, depth 20/30 mm (optional acc to the customer wish), height 3100 mm. The compound quartz stone produced by vibratory pressing under vacuum process. Products use kitchen countertops and cut to size surface solutions. Several finishing treatments are available. Protection and maintenance is easy due to product high technology superior properties. The product surface food contact, hygienic and antibacterial.
- Keywords
- Belenco Teos, Belenco, Teos, Marble look stone, Belenco Quartz Surfaces, White Engineered Stone, White quartz surface, Peker Yuzey Tasarımları, white stone
