PROJECT

ARBORISM

Furniture series applying fractal algorithms. Featured at Haneda Airport.

WHY

A design product closer to natural objects.

To derive the most straightforward model, we believe that the act of design can eliminate the arbitrariness of the creator as much as possible. Although this is a challenging topic in a world designed by humans, we work on the perspective of shaping design by reducing the distance between artifacts and natural objects. This perspective aims for humans and the materials to display a more natural and beautiful relationship by creating such opportunities to stimulate this existing recognition. We, therefore, questioned what kind of design product could embody our ideas.

HOW

Furniture closely replicating growth patterns of trees.

ARBORISM is a piece of furniture with tree-like legs. The shape of the legs derives from a fractal figure “fractal tree,” which mathematically simulates the growth pattern of a tree. As a design reflecting the logicalities of the actual object, it naturally blends in with the surroundings as if it were a part of nature and into the landscape. As well as having reproduced the natural beauty of its structure we instinctively know, we achieved both its form and function, considering its delicate appearance and high rigidity.

WILL

A design was evaluated and adopted by various facilities.

As an independent production, ARBORISM, highly evaluated for its design, was adopted as the flagship model of “Kotobuki Seating”—a leading manufacturer of outdoor furniture for over 100 years. As a result, although our first design product, from being introduced at Tokyo and Haneda Airport with over 100 of them delivered, it was then installed in various facilities such as universities, harmonizing artificial and natural objects in multiple areas.