Red Dot 2009 Winning Concepts – Public Space
Article by Martin Gibson – Twitter – 10.06.2010
The Red Dot 2010 Design Competition is now running! Find out more information about this years competition here.
| Mrs Kwiyun SONG, Mr Kun Woo YI, Miss Kyung Min YOO | Wing is an elevator handrail that also functions as a stool and a hook. Mimicking the action of a birdβs wing, it can be folded down on a hinge. |
| Mr Chang-Ho YOO, Mr Yong-Hee KIM | TIME N.E.W.S is a four-way clock for public spaces through which large volumes of people traverse. |
| Miss Siqian HE, Mr Yakun ZHANG, Miss Ningning ZHU, Miss Chen CHEN, Mr Zhiwei MU | Safe Hump presents a way to capture and use energy that is otherwise wasted, and improve road safety at the same time. |
| Mr Hanseung KIM | Public Music Practice Room is a small, prefabricated space containing some basic music equipment that can be used by those without access to their own studio. |
| Miss Jiae KWON | Map-Hole is a way-finding system for pedestrians that replaces traditional manhole covers with new informative plates. |
| Mr Rainer MUTSCH | Linea is a modular outdoor seating system, suitable to both public and private spaces. |
| Mr. Damjan STANKOVIΔ | Eko Light is a traffic light whose purpose is to promote safer driving and less fuel consumption, while at the same time helping the environment by reducing carbon emissions and improving traffic flow. Eko Light can be easily installed into existing traffic light systems without much effort. |
| Mr Sanghoon LEE | Cornerβs Communication takes the apprehension out of approaching a corner, by allowing one to perceive that another person is nearby. |
| Miss Kyeyoung KANG | AshPlate is a public ashtray for smoking zones. Clean, convenient, and easy-to-maintain, it offers a more pleasant smoking environment. |
| Mr Jeongseon PARK | AISA is a safety system designed for use at alley crossroads or crosswalks where there is no footpath and a high potential for accidents. The system uses a sensor camera to recognise when a pedestrian (or bicycle) and a car are approaching the crossroads from different alleys, and provides an alert to each moving object. |