Taac
Porro - 2012
Pythagorean table.
Taac for its extreme functionality summarized in rigorous mathematical pragmatism, has a discrete impact in space. There is no visual protagonism, but surfaces available for use. The material the tops becomes a pure graphic element. The synthesis in orthogonal surfaces allows you to enter various architectural contexts, almost camouflaging themselves with their basic geometric logic.
The Extentable.
Taac is an extendable table with an extremely essential graphic impact. Formal simplicity is the result of research aimed at making the mechanical complexity of the opening system friendly. It is the minimal form that catalyzes the attention of the person on the large hot surfaces and distracts them from reasoning in technical terms on the metal joints. However, the amazement for cleverness remains intact, even more appreciable because it is not exhibited, but given in the most natural way possible.
The book and the summary.
The vertical surfaces at the edges of the top constitute the thickness within which the mechanism for elongation is hidden. The extensions unfold like a book, or rather like the finned cover of a book, in which the flaps serve to extend the sides of the top. In this way the table has the same appearance both in the normal and extended position.
The quality of the manufacture, the cabinet-making care of the finishes, benefits from the natural design of the eucalyptus, minimizing the visibility of the joints that separate the mobile components of the top.
The graphics of stability.
The aluminum legs have an "L" section, and match the proportions and visible thicknesses of the top. Their arrangement indicates the direction of the object, or the opening direction. This arrangement is the most logical from a structural point of view, acting in reaction to the stresses on the plane, and almost representing the graphics of the forces involved: wider on the long side, proportionally less on the short side. Finally, the table seen from the short side reveals a sort of architectural molding, an essential arch, in which the beams and the architrave have the same section of the leg, giving the object an impression of extreme stability.
WANDERLUST
From the plan to the space.
The space identified by the object is not distinct from the total space of the architecture that houses it. The two spaces coexist and merge. The abstract forms, in their dynamic succession, only conceptualize the infinity of space.
Spatial Composition II, 1928. The Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro would have appreciated the table. He nods, somehow, as Taac in his language sounds like a "yes"!