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h2o bench
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The h2o bench is one component of our winning design for the urban
project competition for the main square of Valenciennes, a town in the
north of France. Drawing from previous research on global urban
conditions and “in-between situations”, the design concept is centred
around the ideas of indeterminacy and instability. It offers
opportunities for user appropriation by encouraging invention of
activities and modification of the individual’s place in increasingly
controlled social spaces.
The research focused on the investigation of five themes: minimal form,
non-orientation, sculptural quality, flexibility and additive
qualities. These five elements also relate the narrative identity of
the object : what do objects tell us?
Our bench dissociates itself from ordinary conditions which typically
join the identity of an object’s form to its’ function. Here, it is the
use which guarantees the final purpose of the object. The visual
simplicity of the basic module is reinforced by its materiality. The
thin shell of Ductal® fiber concrete - at once skin and structure –
embodies the material’s inherent form. Thanks to games of assemblage,
flipping and inversion the bench becomes a game of correlations: at
once stool, chair, bench, and meeting place.
You will find enclosed some pictures of the first accomplished benchs
done by the editor Azuly. We also have a set of technical documents
showing the details, the stereolithographic models of prototyping, the
different stages of molding and final manufacturing.
project competition for the main square of Valenciennes, a town in the
north of France. Drawing from previous research on global urban
conditions and “in-between situations”, the design concept is centred
around the ideas of indeterminacy and instability. It offers
opportunities for user appropriation by encouraging invention of
activities and modification of the individual’s place in increasingly
controlled social spaces.
The research focused on the investigation of five themes: minimal form,
non-orientation, sculptural quality, flexibility and additive
qualities. These five elements also relate the narrative identity of
the object : what do objects tell us?
Our bench dissociates itself from ordinary conditions which typically
join the identity of an object’s form to its’ function. Here, it is the
use which guarantees the final purpose of the object. The visual
simplicity of the basic module is reinforced by its materiality. The
thin shell of Ductal® fiber concrete - at once skin and structure –
embodies the material’s inherent form. Thanks to games of assemblage,
flipping and inversion the bench becomes a game of correlations: at
once stool, chair, bench, and meeting place.
You will find enclosed some pictures of the first accomplished benchs
done by the editor Azuly. We also have a set of technical documents
showing the details, the stereolithographic models of prototyping, the
different stages of molding and final manufacturing.
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