touch me by natalia baudoin from argentina

the original idea of this design came directly from the title of the competition «hands on door handles». i designed a door handle where fingers had left marks by grabbing it. thus the knob loses it's round shape to become an irregular one.
i wanted to produce an object in which the hands had left a trace of their way of using the object. like the stairs on old churches lose their perfectly orthogonal shape after hundreds of years of people climbing on them.
i also thought that it would be interesting to have an object made of hard material (stainless steel) shaped like it was made of modeling clays giving the impression of a hand shaped object.
in order to find the right shape I used modelling material. i pressed my fingers into it and worked with those prints. this shape allows an ergonomic and sophisticated grab on the door handle. the shape intuitively guides the fingers in position.
all of the mechanical parts measures are according to the standards.