An interesting trial to make a transparent, visually light bench, using the stainless steel flat-bar, structured as a coil. It needs to choose the right size and flexibility of the steel flat wire, otherwise you coud get the risk, when you sit on it, to be pinched !

1) Profile
Hiroki Mihara
Born in 1954
He supervised the Alph design architecture office from 1987 in Saga prefecture.
Handling medical care welfare facilities, houses and market facilities.
Part-time lecturer at the Saga University, Urban Environment Engineering Department.
NPO City Planning Institute representative.

2) Impressions by the prize winner and comments on his work
Thank you very much.
It is the first time for me to get a winner-prize in a design competition for furniture.

In this work, when I sketch the figure of a chair for sitting, I have the idea that the line in this sketch keeps continuing. I think it is a good idea to use this effect to make this product a directory of imagination. I suggested this chair as an outside chair with a simple form. When making three-dimensional CG, it is very difficult to get a coil roll continuing and keep the form of the chair. It is also difficult when producing this chair, too. The part above ground has the same form on the coordinate axis. I made it crossing the next figure,
diagonally to the part touching the ground.
For protection from pinching when sitting, it has necessarily some thickness that depends on stainless. This strength must be independent. Actually, it can be found a solution by inserting protective material.