Norwell Form Function Brings Award-Winning Design to Outdoor Fitness Equipments

Public Health has become one of the western countries’ most debated issues and the various solutions have sprung up in municipal level. The undeniable fact remains that we all need to raise our level of fitness and enjoy the feel good factor that fitness brings.

One way for the cities to tackle the quest for fitness is to provide public outdoor gym equipment, free for anyone and everyone to use. The key criteria when deciding on the outdoor gym (in Finnish: ulkoliikuntapaikka) equipment are easy accessibility, ease of use and durability.

Norwell Form function is a new range of sculpted outdoor fitness equipment from Lappset. Designed so all people, despite their age, can enjoy it in the park, or at work, in the schoolyard for children with their teachers, or in the sports club.

The outdoor equipment consists of 12 individual outdoor fitness stations, shaped after a classic design feature of beautifully curved steel. Norwell Form Function equipment is based on a simple Scandinavian design, which gives the parks an architecturally designed equipment and visual beauty while it providing the basic functions it takes to train and maintain the body.

Designed by the acclaimed Danish design company, DOK 54, the Norwell Form Function's outdoor fitness line follows the Scandinavian design tradition. DOK54 was established by Jacob M. Lund and Thomas Brinch-Møller in 2001, after completing their studies at Design Seminariet in Højer, Denmark. Their work centers on product design, focusing on innovative products that are at once novel and functional. With their backgrounds as toolmaker and model maker respectively, they pursue a practical approach to design using their extensive knowledge of materials and production processes.

Their objective was to make the equipment appear as simple and functional as well as intuitive for the users. The main element - the curve - creates the wanted lightness and simple construction which makes the equipment unique in its design. The choice of material, the form and the overall simple appearance together promote the aesthetics, which is the characteristics of Scandinavian design.

To live a healthy and active lifestyle is more relevant in today's society than ever before. Norwell Form Function provides aesthetically pleasing yet durable and thus wise solution for many different environments and climates.