Press Release
The Chakai Exhibition by Studio Kaz Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Installation Design
Studio Kaz acknowledged for installation design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ The Chakai Exhibition by Studio Kaz has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About The Chakai Exhibition
Tango Chirimen, soaked with images projected by projection mapping, was used as a psychological boundary. The extremely thin cloth fluctuates with the slightest movement of air, such as the movement of a person, and responds to the movement of the cloth interactively by means of sensors embedded in the cloth. The material used for the floor is a decorative plywood made by pasting rush grass, which would normally have been discarded, onto plywood because it was not long enough to fit into the tatami weaving machine.
About Studio Kaz
Coichi Wada is one of Japan's leading kitchen designers. His designs are not limited to product design, but also include interior design proposals, including kitchens, and his designs are functional as well. In this sense, he is an extremely rare interior designer. His activities are not limited to kitchens, and he designs a wide variety of spaces and products. He also focuses on training younger designers and expanding the market.
Award Record
With this recognition, Studio Kaz is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interactive, Experiential and Immersive Design Installations Award
The A' Installation Design Award is an international installation design competition recognizing good installation designs by best installation designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to installation designers, experiential design studios, interactive design agencies and immersive technology experts from all countries. Typical entries include sculptural installations, light installations, sound installations, digital installations, kinetic installations and site-specific installations. The awarded interactive installation designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/installation
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/168696
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/168696
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!168696
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/362092
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://x.gd/V1olZ9
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Chakai Exhibition
- Function
- Exhibition
- Category
- Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Black, Saddle Brown and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Studio Kaz
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #168696
Credits
- Team
- Miyuki Chikahiro Akari Kawase, Junco Wada and Coichi Wada
- Image Credits
- image #No1:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc. image #No2:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc. image #No3:Photographer/Bunsei Matsuura image #No4:Photographer/Bunsei Matsuura image #No5:Photographer/Nacása & Partners Inc. video:SWAG.inc music:STUDIO KAZ co,.ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Tango Chirimen, soaked in images projected by projection mapping, is used as a psychological barrier. The extremely thin fabric sways with the slightest air movement, and sensors embedded in the fabric react interactively to the movement of the fabric. The floor is made of an original material called "IGUSA-faced plywood", made by gluing rush grass that would have been discarded because it was too long to fit into a tatami loom onto plywood.
- Inspiration
- The tea ceremony is not only a ritual of tea, but also a way to entertain guests with tea. The guest is also a part of the creation of the tea ceremony. We design the tea ceremony room for this mentality. The rule we decided on was to use Japanese materials but not to assemble them in a Japanese way. The tea ceremony room is constructed of veneer plywood made of rush, the material used for tatami, and a cloth soaked with images that change interactively to create a psychological boundaries.
- Research
- The spirit of the tea ceremony is the spirit of "omotenashi" (hospitality). The purpose of the tea ceremony is not to drink tea, but to “entertain” the guest through the act of drinking tea. For this purpose, everything in the tea room, from the entrance, to the alcove, hanging scrolls, flowers, incense, clothing, and various manners, are mobilized to provide hospitality.
- Challenge
- The internal factors 1. Identifying the essence of the tea ceremony. 2. Knowing the history and components of the tea room. 3. Understanding and mastering the tea ceremony itself. the external factors 1. Adjusting the signals from the sensors embedded in the fabric to reflect them in the program of projection mapping . 2. The technique of kneading rush grass onto plywood. 3. Adapting to an experiential exhibition space. 4.Use sustainable materials and methods consciously.
- Realization and Technology
- We used Tango Chirimen imbued with projection-mapped images as a boundary. Sensors embedded in the tango crepe detect the slightest swaying of the cloth and respond interactively The floor is made of decorative plywood made from rush grass from the wada family in kumamoto, which could not fit into the tatami loom because it was not long enough and had to be disposed of.
- Operation and Interaction
- Sensors embedded in the tango crepe detect and quantify the shaking of the cloth, and by incorporating these values into video and music programs, the images and sounds can be changed interactively.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project took place from October 18, 2024 to October 27, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Specifications
- MATERIAL Tango Chirimen IGUSA-faced plywood DIMENSIONS width 3,138.5mm depth 3,138.5mm height 2,075mm TECHNICAL projection mapping
- Keywords
- chakai, chashitsu, Igusa-faced plywood, Tango Chirimen, projection mapping
