形のつくり方

輪島塗のフリーカップを制作するにあたって、どういう形にするかを言葉で書き出した。

「飲み口の厚みを変えることにより、カップが唇に当たる時の感触が変わるので、その日の気分しだいで、飲み口を変えることができ、飲み口を変えることにより、カップの見え方も変わり、その日の気分しだいでカップの佇まいも変わる形」

建築でも最終的にどうなればいいのかをまず言葉で書き出すことがある。イメージを補完して強度を増すために行う場合もあるが、大体は既視感がないものをつくり出したくて、自分のイメージがそこまで追いついていない時に行う。

雲形で不連続に厚みが変わり、雲形の窪んだ所を手掛けになるようにし、飲み口の口が当たる部分の直径が85mm、高さが105mm。とりあえず、この時点で形に関して決まっていたのはこれだけ。

ただ、手で持つには飲み口の直径85mmは大き過ぎる。となると、飲み口から手で持つ部分まで形を絞らなくてはならない。飲み口の厚みが雲形に不連続に変わる変わり方と、飲み口からの形の絞り方がシンプルな規則性で成り立つならば、複雑性を秘めたシンプルな形にすることができるかもしれないという読みはあった。

形を複雑にしていくことは容易だが、形の複雑さを追求すると単なる形態操作だけになり、形を恣意的に扱い、軽薄なものしかできないような気がする。そういうものはつくりたくなかった。

飲み口の厚みを連続して変えるのは案外簡単なことだった。飲み口の形を円にして、外側の円と内側の円の中心を偏心させれば、おのずと連続的に厚みは変化していく。

さらに、その連続的に変化する厚みから手掛けの部分を半だ円状に削り出し、滑らかにすれば、雲形状になり、なおかつ、手掛けの部分も飲み口として使えるので、さらに飲み口の厚みに多様な変化を加えることができ、厚みの変化を不連続にすることができる。

ただ、その手掛けの部分をどこにいくつつけるか、それは見た目の形のバランスにも大きく影響を与えるし、それは飲み口から手で持つ部分までの形の絞り方とうまく関連させ、バランスよく調和させないと、形を恣意的に扱っているように見られ、カップに軽薄な印象を与えるおそれがあった。

"How to make a shape"

When writing a free cup of Wajima lacquer, I wrote in words how to form it.

"By changing the thickness of the drinking mouth, the feeling when the cup hits the lips changes, so depending on the mood of the day, you can change the drinking mouth, by changing the drinking mouth, the way the cup looks changes, that day The appearance of the cup changes according to the mood of the cup "

First of all, it is sometimes written out in words how to finally do in architecture. It is sometimes done to supplement the image to increase the intensity, but when you want to create something that does not have a sense of dead vision in general, do it when your image does not catch up with that.

The thickness changes discontinuously in a cloud shape, so that the cloud-shaped recessed part is handled, the part where the mouth of the drinking mouth hits is 85 mm in height and 105 mm in height. Tentatively, this is the only one that was decided on shape at this point.

However, the 85 mm diameter of the drinking mouth is too big to hold with hands. , You have to narrow down the shape from the drinking mouth to the part you hold with your hand. It is said that it may be able to be a simple form with complexity if the way of change in which the thickness of the drinking mouth changes discontinuously in cloud form and the way of narrowing the shape from the drinking mouth with simple regularity There was a reading.

It is easy to make shapes complicated, but pursuing the complexity of shapes is only a morphological manipulation, it seems that it is possible to handle arbitrary shapes arbitrarily and only to be flimsy. I did not want to make such a thing.

Changing the thickness of the drinking mouth continuously was surprisingly easy. If the shape of the drinking mouth is made into a circle and the outer circle and the center of the inner circle are eccentric, the thickness will continuously change continuously.

Furthermore, from the continuously varying thickness, it cuts out the part of the handhold into a semicircular shape and if it is made smooth, it becomes a cloud shape, and since the part of the hand can also be used as a drinking mouth, furthermore the thickness of the drinking mouth Various changes can be made, and change in thickness can be discontinuous.

However, how many pieces of the handpiece are put on it, it also has a big influence on the balance of the appearance shape, and it must be well connected with the way of drawing the shape from the drinking mouth to the part with the hand and it must be balanced in harmony , It seemed to treat arbitrary shape, there was a possibility of giving a cup a flirty impression.