2023 Wood Materials Engraving in Traditional Chinese Handicraft Materials research achievements release

「Wood and engraving」 is the fourth research topic of the Wood Materials Research project of traditional Chinese materials after 「Wood cutting」, 「Wood dyeing」, and 「Wood and lacquer」. The Ugan concept exclusively supports the Rong Design Library as a wood material expert and participates in the research. Deconstruct the production process of engraving from the four parts of 「Board-carving-plate-printing」 and explore the plasticity of engraving in contemporary design.

Reconstructed wood floor's dimension in oriental architecture

After the release of the blue dye and large paint series flooring, the designer Mei Shuzhi was invited to design this time. After more than one year of research and development, the「Oriental architectural scale」series flooring was launched in March 2023. Based on the scale relationship of the three parts of the oriental architecture, namely, rectangular brick, Square brick and stone board, Ugan concept object reconstructs the new「floor」size and realizes the application of the oriental architectural scale in modern space.

Ugan concept × NEdLAW jointly launched a limited outdoor table that can be assembled

For the first time, Ugan concept and the outdoor brand NEdLAW jointly designed outdoor furniture, extending the floor to the desktop, and launched a waterproof outdoor table that can be assembled.

The Lacquer of Traditional Chinese Handicrafts | Chinese Lacquer Floor

The best way to pass on an aesthetic and craft is to make it live in the moment. Ugan concept will be the traditional handicraft material of the lacquer for contemporary translation, into the daily life, so that the lacquer, the flow of life of the tree, restore the wood floor as a tree life form.

The Bamboo of Traditional Chinese Handicrafts | Bamboo Floor

“ It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo”,The systematic research of bamboo flooring products is an innovative use of bamboo as a sustainable material in addition to the development of wood floor of Ugan concept.

Indigo Dyeing of Traditional Chinese Handicrafts | Indigo Floor

"Plants and trees know the season", indigo dyeing is a craft that follows the seasons. From planting, collecting, to blue making and dyeing, it gives tangible traces to the time according to the season and climate, and also makes every piece of indigo floor unique and full of imagination.

Another kind of laying order with a piece of floor in parallel space | Ugan concept image store in the west of Hangzhou city

Echoing the “order of laying a piece of floor in a parallel space” in the Taizhou exhibition hall, which opened recently, Ugan concept image store in the west of Hangzhou city is designed and upgraded on the basis of the original design concept of “four images and six emptiness”, and new floors have been made. The paving design of the building creates different three-dimensional spaces through the dislocation in the parallel direction, presenting "another laying order of a piece of floor in the parallel space".

Intersection with "lacquer" in parallel space

On September 26, 2021, Ugan concept Taizhou Image store officially opened. Ugan concept and Rong Design Library, together with the Taizhou designers present, witnessed the debut of Ugan concept's first image store in Taizhou. "2021 the sharing session on Chinese lacquer research of traditional wood materials" was also held at the same time as the opening ceremony.

Laying order of a piece of floor in parallel space | Ugan Concept Taizhou New Space

Based on the original "four images and six virtual" design concepts, floors of different colors and specifications were laid. In the design, in the same parallel plane, the layered sense of the space is deduced through the orderly laying order, that is, the design concept of "the laying order of a piece of floor in the parallel space".

"Twenty-four solar terms on the floor" won the 2021 British D&AD Wooden Pencil Award

From the beginning of Grain Rain in 2019 to Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020, the sun's yellow longitude will change from 30° to 15°, and the Grain Rain will turn to 24 equal parts in 2020.We spent one year recording the phenological changes in different solar terms every 15 days, and collaborated with Quinsay Design to create "Revolution Around the light - The 24 Solar Terms on the Floor".