drop by emanuela vargiu from italy

COLOMBO DESIGN: international design competition "The hands on the handles of the doors" - in collaboration with Designboom.

DOCUMENTATION: Project Report

The production design of the handle referred to as "drop" in rotation, it is clear from the careful and particular research on the type of interior door handles for both doors and sliding; utopian idea of conceiving a rotating handle independently.
Autonomous why? Turn the handle down, the door closes...reverse its horizontal position, the door opens....The rotation of the handle, around the "pin", which allows you to open and close our doors without the help secondary key or whatever.
Two key elements declare the ideological content of the designed handle; graphically the formal meeting of two lines determine its geometric shape, abstract and utopian view of the enhanced-graphics and visual posture of the wrist and wrist at the time of the opening of a door. The subtle blend of two line segments and the other a curved linear identify an organically shaped handle. ...

Explicit material in the human body: HAND IN ACTION. This feature is highlighted by the formal distinction of matter of two specific materials, namely wood and steel satin ... or variation in steel and Plexiglas.
Form and function declare them selves ...in a single product design, function dictates form.. join their elegant generates a handle independently. The meeting of form and function, two fundamental elements in the design, they created the autonomous operation of the handle, the protagonist is the utopian gesture-simple opening handle (horizontal) - closing rotation (vertical) ... .. the hinge closed-door opening is subject to the position of the handle, eliminating the "plate" committed to accept the key or pin ... ..

April 2011 Handle ; Drop