Special Jury Award
OJIGI TOKURI Self-Tilting Sake Bottle
Shoko Kawata, Kazuki Takenouchi
OJIGI TOKURI can tell the remaining quantity of sake inside by changing its tilting position, while remaining sake is invisible in a traditional one made of opaque china. This unique behavior of the tilting is generated by its computationally optimized asymmetrical inner configuration, which changes the center of gravity with a decrease of sake with holding a stable tilting position in 4 steps. Moderate movement to the next stable position is given by double curved surface patches. Elegant openwork and deep extrude cut figured with cherry blossoms implicitly show the mechanism of tilting