A seat for success: Interior architecture & product 1xbet online casino student's chair wins Kansas City competition
Friday, March 14, 2014
MANHATTAN — A study abroad experience helped a Kansas State University interior architecture & product 1xbet online casino student bring home top honors in a "monster" of a 1xbet online casino competition.
Josef Lang, fourth year interior 1xbet online casino & architecture student in the university's College of Architecture, Planning and 1xbet online casino , or APDesign, earned best in show honors for his chair 1xbet online casino in the "Monsters of 1xbet online casino " competition, a part of Kansas City's annual 1xbet online casino Week. The competition is open to designers and architects within a 200-mile radius of Kansas City.
"Josef is a talented designer, a motivated leader and a well-loved member of the APDesign community. While I am always excited to see our students recognized for their talent, in Josef's case I am particularly pleased to see a wonderful person rewarded for his dedication,” said Tim de Noble, dean of the College of Architecture, Planning & 1xbet online casino .
Fifty applicants submitted designs for the event, with Lang, Bellevue, Neb., winning the top prize for his chair called "CR45."
"It was a great moment of validation," said Lang, who put in more than 1,000 hours of work into the 1xbet online casino and its multiple prototypes.
"CR45" is a direct result of a summer 2013 study abroad experience in Copenhagen at the Danish Institute, Lang said. He studied furniture 1xbet online casino under Flemming Steen Jesen, a Danish designer and practicing professional.
The name of Lang's 1xbet online casino even pays tribute to Denmark.
"The 'CR' stands for cantilevered rod and the '45' is the country code when dialing Denmark — giving credit to the 1xbet online casino 's country of origin," he said.
The summer furniture studio class Lang was in split into four groups and students were challenged to 1xbet online casino with only one specific material for the structure of their piece. Lang was given the solid steel category and from there decided to take a minimalist approach, designing a cantilevered chair.
The steel arches from the early industrial period of Western Europe inspired Lang's 1xbet online casino . The arches maximized their efficiency by creating space frames that diagram the forces acting on traditional monolithic arched constructions. He used their trusses as a guide to create a space frame to compensate for the disadvantages posed by the geometry of the solid rod.
Since returning from Copenhagen, Lang has been making the "CR45" chairs by hand in his garage. His submission for "Monsters of 1xbet online casino " was based on the fifth prototype, but Lang says he is always looking for ways to make it a little better. He is currently working with a manufacturer to explore increased production of the chairs as interest in them is growing.
"A lot of credit is owed to the interior architecture & product 1xbet online casino curriculum and mindset that equally values the conceptualizing of a 1xbet online casino and physically realizing it as being equally integral components of what makes great 1xbet online casino possible," Lang said.
1xbet online casino Week is sponsored by a wide range of companies and organization and offers speakers, events, competitions and exhibitions, each showing a different facet of 1xbet online casino .
Lang is a 2010 graduate of Bellevue East High School in Bellevue.