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Constellations
Brussels, Belgium
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Constellations
Brussels, Belgium
Project Featured on Jul 14, 2017
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
In spring 2016, the European Parliament (EP) commissioned a design for temporary creative street furniture and greenery for the Esplanade Solidarność 1980, the main thoroughfare that links the different buildings of the Parliament campus in Brussels.
With Constellations, instead of designing temporary furniture, City3 in collaboration with Atelier Starzak Strebicki and Laura Muyldermans however proposed the EP to invest in a set of 100 chairs, 10 tables and 50 plants. With the design project becoming a research project, allowing to arrange and test the chairs, tables and plants during one year in various configurations.
A group of circles, a long line, several small clusters, a series of stars: throughout one year, the chairs, tables and plants, in a variety of colors in order to avoid any form of pre-definition, are re-arranged in various ways and installed in different parts and sections of the Esplanade. They turn the vast space into a scene for a colorful play in which the chairs and tables and the people using them become the actors. The Esplanade becomes a convivial, people-oriented and friendly public space, but at the same time also an object of study in which the different ways the public interacts with the furniture and with the space of which it is part can be observed and explored.
Photography: Julie Guiches © European Union 2016
With Constellations, instead of designing temporary furniture, City3 in collaboration with Atelier Starzak Strebicki and Laura Muyldermans however proposed the EP to invest in a set of 100 chairs, 10 tables and 50 plants. With the design project becoming a research project, allowing to arrange and test the chairs, tables and plants during one year in various configurations.
A group of circles, a long line, several small clusters, a series of stars: throughout one year, the chairs, tables and plants, in a variety of colors in order to avoid any form of pre-definition, are re-arranged in various ways and installed in different parts and sections of the Esplanade. They turn the vast space into a scene for a colorful play in which the chairs and tables and the people using them become the actors. The Esplanade becomes a convivial, people-oriented and friendly public space, but at the same time also an object of study in which the different ways the public interacts with the furniture and with the space of which it is part can be observed and explored.
Photography: Julie Guiches © European Union 2016
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