Interviews of 2nd year's Grand Prix
Winners in the “Monthly Design” Magazine, November 2002
Grand Prix Winners Federica Lusiardi, Riccardo Bianchini
Monthly Design: What made you participate at the competition?
We found out about the DBEW International Design Competition
at Italy's architecture related website and thought the theme
was original and that the judges were of high prestige. As we
assumed that the overall quality of the event would be rather
high (which is not often the case), we have decided to participate.
Monthly Design: Why do you think the Grand
Prix was given to you? Well, it is difficult to say what made our work win
the Grand Prix but in our concept of “Sweet Nest Space” there
are some factors that we have focused on, and we think that
these factors enabled us to attain high score. The core of the
project is interaction between people. We planned our social
work giving children's viewpoint identical, or even higher prestige
than the grown ups' viewpoint. Another important factor is the
“balanced relation” among furniture and spaces. The two factors
of home would be “food nest” and “knowledge nest”, and they
face each other and create some kind of an energy flow. Such
energy flow differs depending on the change of layout, but it
does not destroy the balanced relation between human and things.
We wanted to regulate the complex relations, thus we concentrated
on the overall space and not simply the collection of things.
Monthly Design : How did you get the inspiration
of container and movable space?
The most important issue in our work is the mobility, wonder
and flexibility of time and space and so on. Even if we named
it “Sweet Nest Space” we did not mean it to be a secluded place
from the outside world only for the family members. Actually
it's the opposite. We meant it to be a space where family members
gather, have relations with others, meet up friends, some place
where affection grows and flows.
The importance of movable wall is that we may show the inside
of the wall to the outside, all family members may actively
move about, and this is more important when there is a child
in the family. It is difficult to say how or where we got the
inspiration of our work, but I guess we could say that we got
hints from the works of Steven Hall and from the movie,”Space
Odyssey” of Stanley Kubrick.
Monthly Design : What is your relation like
with Hanssem after the competition?
Hanssem informed us the result of the competition by
email on 9th October. They swiftly informed us the related
articles and gave us many new related information. We
are being step by step informed of Hanssem's DBEW International
Design Competition that they are organizing and we are
happy and satisfied by their attitude. We also know that
Hanssem has been good to other entrants as well. It is
rare that such big company treats designers with such
generosity. If there is a chance that we may work with
Hanssem together, we would gladly consent. However, at
the moment, we are very excited to receive the award.
