Xdesign for Ouix
Xdesign
The X design recalls a simple motif, the X, used by a generation of architects, who in the early forties and for more than a decade, in an attempt to innovate the Italian furniture, used X-shaped legs for tables, desks and armchairs, searching for the frugality of form with the elimination of the unnecessary.
The use of the X aims at reviving the virtuality of the motif that is brought to life in a variety of forms composed in space with combinations always derived from the X, which becomes the formal matrix or "diagram" form of a variety of forms: 2X, IO, YO, 2C, 2U ...
Linearism
Lines and boundary lines reveal the volume and reduce the mass of each object, forming an interplay of levels and intersecting lines.
Xdesign emphasises the lines of which it is made up, putting them at the centre of the object.
Lightness
Xdesign works through the lightweight, removing the superfluous, leaving visible only the bare minimum and rendering invisible the body of the object.
Tensegrity
Tensegrity, as the chosen field, is the abstract machine that generates Ouix objects.
Simple tensile and compressive forces, determined by the geometry of two subsystems, structure the object X, freeing it from mass and gravity, making the corners of the polyhedron points of perfect equilibrium between forces of attraction and repulsion.
The chosen materials, wood and steel (cables, turnbuckles, hinges, bushings), eliminate joints, pins, glue and nails, using an interaction of stress (tension or compression) to hold the structure together.