10.04.2013 - Ausgabe: 2/2013

Greenville receives the red dot design award

After the success of the Cosmo range another innovative design from the Berliner Seilfabrik has been selected for an award.

The new 'Greenville' line of products has received the red dot design award 2013. The organic shape and new materials of the rope play houses from the rope manufacturer in the capital make them stand out from the crowd.

The North Rhine Westphalia Design Centre red dot design award, one of the most prestigious seals of quality for outstanding design, was highly coveted once again this year. 1,865 designers, architects and firms from 54 countries entered their current designs in the 19 different categories of the red dot award: product design 2013 competition. The Berliner Seilfabrik with its new 'Greenville' line of products is one of the winners.
For this new line of products the "Berliner" factory has wrapped up the proven excellent features of the spacenet into a 'magical' rope play house, where children can discover life in a protected and safe environment. For the Greenville play house leaves the child's imagination free to invent games, to make believe to their heart's content that the rope house is a house, a spaceship, a barn or an aircraft, a castle or a cave. The various assessment criteria for the award of the prize include functionality, degree of innovation or symbolic and emotional content and 'Greenville' made the best impression on all counts.
With 'Greenville', Berliner Seilfabrik has developed further the classic external structure. The geometric models, designed in straight lines have been seized on and re-interpreted in fresh, organic shapes. 'Greenville' also has the tried and tested Frameworks© framework construction made from tubes and spheres to thank for its stability. The spheres contain the patented AstemTT rope tensioning system, which takes up the three-dimensional space net made from the well-known, high-quality rope and tensions it with four-leafed clover rings at the points where the ropes cross each other. The house is rounded off by various wall and roof elements, which are planked on the outside with bamboo and in this way give protection and warmth. By using this innovative raw material 'Greenville' lives up to its name, for the bamboo panels are hard-wearing and more sustainable than wood and their energy footprint is considerably better.
The presentation ceremony for the internationally renowned seal of quality will take place on 1st July 2013 as part of the traditional red dot gala. The award ceremony in the Aalto Theatre in Essen is always the crowning finale to the red dot award: product design and in past years has become established as a formal ceremony, attended by guests from all over the world. Subsequently 'Greenville' will be displayed in model form in a four-week special exhibition in the red dot design museum.
Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, initiator and CEO of red dot points out that the winners of the red dot award: product design 2013 are protagonists of a highly developed design culture and design industry and goes on to say, "Nowadays it is becoming ever more difficult to make distinctions between the different well designed products. It is often in the details that the special features become apparent. Those product creations, however, which pass the test before the critical eyes of the international panel of red dot adjudicators, will not disappear into the crowd and are well able to hold their own in competition on the global market.”
Further information on Greenville can be found on www.berliner-seilfabrik.com.