SilenceTop, by Queen Suyeon Mun, is a table interactive hub that builds a relationship alternative between objects, space and humans, around the theme of silence.
The above sounds somewhat complex, but it is not because basically what this piece of furniture does is that it rethinks the landscape of domestic spaces furnishing and confronting silences in various scenarios.
What Queen Suyeon Mun did was that she reinterpreted the classic coffee table that is used in South Korea to serve tea and coffee, so he equipped it with motors and sensors to give it a new life.
This piece of microarchitecture, a genre that has become very popular in recent years because it requires a large dose of design and creativity, it's really fascinating.
Just as furniture focuses on the human condition and the spaces in which it will be placed, the same goes for architectural design.
SilenceTop explores how an object can converge the scales that are played in both fields, thus creating a new mode of participation to form an alternative spatial relationship between the microarchitectural object and people.
What this project does is that it basically builds interactive responses to an abstract theme, which is silence, and creates an unconventional space between a totally different piece of furniture and the architectural space.
Queen Suyeon Mun reconfigured the radial space of the traditional table to accommodate up to three people at a time. She also worked hard to develop sensor technology, conditional interactivity, and design with proxemics.
In order to obtain an extraordinary microarchitectural object, this designer decided to use the proxemic theory developed by the anthropologist Edward T. Hall, which determines the amount of space that is considered necessary to allow an optimal conversation between people in different circumstances.
As a result, Suyeon Mun established a distance of 75 centimeters between the people sitting around the SilenceTop table and when it detects an awkward silence, the kalimba, which is nothing more than an African musical instrument, sounds thanks to the sensors with which that counts and thus the silence is transformed.