AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
public space, outdoor furniture, relaxation
COUNTRY
Iceland
DESIGNED BY
Dagný Bjarnadóttir holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture, from the University of Copenhagen. She is the owner of the architecture firm DLD- Dagný Land Design and has practiced in the private sector in Iceland since she graduated in 1992. The office is in an old power plant Toppstöðin, in the beautiful nature of Elliðaárdalur in Reykjavík.
Simultaneously with her architectural work she has lectured and participated in experimental projects. She was in the board of Design Center from the start of it, and a Chairman of the Board in year 2011-2012.
Dagný was chosen to design the Nordic landscape architecture exhibition - New Nordic Landscapes at the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. The exhibition was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
DLD-Dagný Land Design
DLD work ranges from large-scale landscape projects and planning to detailed, small-scale designs, and installations. Crushed bottle glass as a surface, Furnibloom -greenhouse furniture, Fang- benches from Icelandic wood, made in the Icelandic prisons, are example of experimental design. In August 2018, the Fang-benches received the European Distribution Design Awards -DDMP in Iceland.
In year 2014 DLD was in one of four selected groups to take part in the Slowly Changing Course, an experimental work on development in housing and spatial planning in Iceland.
In Year 2016, DLD won the Nordic Built Cities Challenge of Kársnes Harbour sustainable lifeline, and last year 2018, DLD shared a first price in a competition about Hlemmur, an urban area and square in the center of Reykjavík.
Lately DLD have being working on Design guidelines for Reykjavík municipality, where sustainable green solutions are in focus, for the benefits of healthier city life.
The DLD vision is to work with the certainty that every project offers opportunities to create an exciting experience and an enjoyable environment that improves the quality of life and better society.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/fangutihusgogn/
Fang
The Fang design focuses on to use local wood material in the most sustainable way.
The Fang design focuses on two main goals, first to use local wood material in the most sustainable way, the second to teach handcraft in the workshops. By using the whole trunk no waste is left in the production. Transportation with the material and the final product is lowered to the minimum, by using local material and local workshops. The product could be produced locally anywhere in the world and is very simple in production. It is important that the design is very simple so the learning face in the prison is easy and no expertise is needed.
The design is possible to produce anywhere in the world, a perfect distributed design, where global transportation of the product is not needed and the benches can be sold directly to customers without intermediaries.
Today there are two types of benches produced, Drumbur a straight one and Sveifla which is curved.
Each bench is an unique piece, because it takes shape from the tree it’s made of. The design is parametric,
