Glasgow 4 | 2003
This handle door application searches for solutions that we think consistent in achieving the assumptions of modernity, functionality and ergonomics. A choice of new materials, alerting us to new developments and technology options, including recyclable product, responding to the needs of users simultaneously, where the playful character and "poetry" does not fail to include a mother lode of untapped functionality.
This handle door application searches for solutions that we think consistent in achieving the assumptions of modernity, functionality and ergonomics. A choice of new materials, alerting us to new developments and technology options, including recyclable product, responding to the needs of users simultaneously, where the playful character and "poetry" does not fail to include a mother lode of untapped functionality.
The Glasgow 4, is versatile and mutant: a product for family.
Behind Concept form: horizontal, vertical, curve | Lines oval, circular or undulating were rare, but placed the design in an objective, clear, almost surgical, already foreshadowing some of the characteristics of Art Deco. Unlike what happens with the Art Nouveau, the group led by Mackintosh, used predominantly on the straight line in his compositions, covering systematically the vertical and horizontal. With it, a second movement in the process of industrialization, framed the spirit Art Nouveau. The Glasgow Four born in Scotland in the late XIX century,
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Every place needs an inherent creation of his own structure, Glasgow four, pretends to establish this nuances: small details that preserve every local and embrace user needs. This is, transforming identity in a user definition customization. Every place needs his own identity; sometimes buildings must define a visual strategy embodying his intrinsic language, adopting changeable skin in different sceneries. Color and texture can transport this tactile-visual sensibility to provide small but significant interpretations depending on user expectations: sectors, age, gender, culture are a few mechanisms that fulfill a matrix orientation in every human landscape. The Glasgow 4 gives importance to user language, identity + metamorphosis. The support where the pieces will be placed should therefore justify the choices, starting immediately from the principle that the variety of market doors in different materials such as wood, iron, stainless steel finishes or the lacquered, painted, etc., gives prominence to a new door handle concept.
The proposed set follows in our view, the consistency in the formal language of the different product applications, facilitating their identification and creating the conditions for its application in residential premises, or services in general, might contribute to the differentiation spaces identification, whether through the chromatic options, or by alternative materials.
Carlos Casimiro Costa + João Duque
