张力架是由荷兰设计师保罗-科恩创作的一个极简主义架子。这件作品是由四个不锈钢部件组装而成。三个架子刺穿了弯曲的板材。弧形板的张力被架子锁定，这构成了不同部分之间的稳固连接。由于它的形状，它从四面都能发挥作用。张力架是《装配的边界》系列上的一个延续。制造业正在使用标准尺寸的材料，所使用的每台机器都按照这些尺寸工作。与其把这看作是一种限制，不如说是对新的可能性的调查。金属板经常被折叠，以排除其灵活的特性，并在材料中创造刚性。这种灵活性也可用于我们的优势。通过将这一特点与高精度的制造结合在一起，演化出一种形式语言：由于金属板的弯曲力，金属的柔韧性被用来将碎片锁在一起，回到原来的形状。
Tension Shelf is a minimalist shelf created by Netherlands-based designer Paul Coenen. This piece is assembled from four stainless steel parts. The three shelves pierce the curved sheet. The tension in the curved sheet is locked by the shelves, which makes up a solid connection between the different parts. Due to its shape, it is functional from all four sides. The Tension shelf is a continuation on the Borders of Assembly collection. The manufacturing industry is using standard sized material, and every machine used works according to these sizes. Instead of seeing this as a limitation, it became an investigation for new possibilities. Sheet metal is often folded to rule out its flexible properties and to create stiffness in the material. This flexibility can also be used in our advantage. By combining this feature together with high precision manufacturing, a form language evolved: the flexibility of metal is used to lock pieces together due to the sheet’s force of bending back to its original shape.
Designer: Paul Coenen
Country: Netherlands