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Flexible Seating: Projects, Journals & Ideas

51 Projects 23 Journals 2 Publications 4 Competitions

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Flexible seating encompasses furniture and spatial interventions that respond to changing needs and environments. Rather than fixed, single-purpose pieces, these designs prioritize adaptability through modular systems, material innovation, and structural thinking.

The community explores modular benches and chairs that serve multiple functions in public and domestic spaces, material-driven approaches to furniture design, and how seating can activate underused areas and accommodate diverse user groups.

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Szymon Świderski2 works

Nandini Arora1 work

Daniel Caven1 work

Sam Lynch1 work

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JAHNAVI and AVANITHA THADURI

MFB

Traditional design of benches have become boring, repetitive and single usage objects.To gain maximum benefit from the seating space in urban plazas we designed MFB, to suit millennial needs. Users can not only sit & rest but he can use his laptop, interact with people & experience various positions such as sitting, leaning, lounging & stretching his legs.

David and 2 others

Ribbons of Growth

A modular system for expanding social interaction with safe distancing.

Keerthigan and Tyler

Virtual Insanity

Our concept for the building was to illustrate the place VR has in cinema, and what spaces the interplay between the two creates.

Aliakbar

PLATFORM

A PLATFORM (December 2017) acts as a catalyst for the user and space, life and activity. It dwells at the edge of the street and aims to invite people to make it as a part of their routine. PLATFORM is a systemic design approach which is developed as a module of 1-4 seater and location of each PLATFORM is decided after the study of surrounding areas.

Zeina

Regen Dining Competition

This is my submission for the Regen Dining Competition.

niloofar shadmehri and Helianeh

Bubble

Bubble is a narrative furniture which involves you in a pleasant childhood story, and creates lots of memorable experiences for you through its special features, that make your existence as a human more livable. The capital of a livable city is not based on economy, but humanity. Bubble furniture is designed to pay more attention to humanity...

Anna and Michel

Upgrade

Upgrade is a compact, fold-able, lightweight solution to make commuting more comfortable. Attached to vertical handrails on public transport it creates a personal seat. Hooking the strap to the overhead handrails transforms it into a swing seat. Upgrade can also be used as a free standing short or tall stool or as a multi-use surface.

Qianqin and 2 others

Site Frames

This prefabricated bus stop revealing the site spirit through customized materials, consists of a transparent frame system and an alternative fabric unit. It can offer spaces with different intimacy by rotating the vertical parts. As a special installation, this mobile bus stop also presents a certain meaning in praxiology and urban landscape ecology.

Mukti and 2 others

URBAN CRISS

This project deal with the urban platform and relations between human with nature. Generally we trying to created sustainable architecture in urban context .

Raymond C and 3 others

Urban mAtrA - Shadow of a Tree

mAtrA in Sanskrit means furniture, and the earliest known street furniture would be sitting under a tree. Translating these thoughts into a product for the 20th century urban environments, resulted in the Urban mAtrA - a fold-able, mobile and movable shadow of a tree. Material exploration aided the feasibility of the furniture for extreme climates.

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UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Design Chair for Kids at Home: A Legless, Pattern-Born Seat Scaled to Children Aged 2 to 7

A grounded, loop-patterned chair built from child ergonomics, where safety comes from form and the seat doubles as play surface and spatial anchor.

Furniture Design

Children Design

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Shell Chair: A Plywood Seat That Trades Four-Legged Certainty for an Unfolding Experience

Maryam Moradi and Reza Kabudmehri split a plywood backrest into unfolding panels, turning the act of sitting into an encounter with balance and enclosure.

Furniture Design

Concrete Shell