Urban Bench
Street furniture and seating design that shapes public spaces and urban environments.
faro
Faro was born from the idea that public lighting can become much more than a simple urban function: a meeting point, a shared space, a small center for community life.
BLOOMING
The concept of BLOOMING is to create a magic moment in the busy everyday urban life. With a little bit of collaboration, people can achieve the ultimate special moment that reminds us of the beauty and happiness of exploring the city and the people around us, like unforgettable memories of flowers blooming together at the same time.
Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
Vendor: Modular Urban Furniture That Keeps Street Sellers on the Promenade
A system of recycled plastic panels, aluminum frames, and a booking app designed to protect coastal vending culture in Tricity, Poland.
Cloud: Triangulated Urban Furniture That Invites Spontaneous Gathering
Steel pipes and woven nylon wires form floating modular canopies that activate forgotten pockets of public space across the city.
BREEZZE Market by Dispacement Architectural Design: Reviving Urban Spaces Through Community Market Architecture
An architectural transformation that redefines urban podiums through community market design, revitalizing neighborhoods with social and commercial synergy.
Offenbach Marktplatz Transportation Hub by Just Architekten GmbH: A Poetic Urban Gesture
Sculptural bus stop at Offenbach Marktplatz featuring leafy green canopy, steel structure, wooden benches, seamless urban integration, inviting seating, day-night ambiance.
U+ CHARGE: MAKE URBAN SPACE ALIVE
?U+Charge? is a set of urban furniture module designed for public squares in Boston area which provides people with reconfigurable street benches equipped with solar charge stations.
Highway Urban Box: A House-Shaped Waiting Room for the City's Forgotten Highway Edges
A replicable, colour-coded house archetype claims highway shoulders and residual voids as public waiting spaces for emergencies and everyday pauses.
Urban Oasis: Turning a Former Spandau Barracks into a Dense District That Grows Its Own Green
Varlygin and Soshnikova recast Berlin's garden culture as an urban typology, weaving greenhouses and shared plots into a densified former barracks site.
Urban Furniture challenging Urban Flooding
The primary concept behind the Urbanscape:symbiosis proposal for the city of Guwahati, Assam, India is to cater to the rising concern of flooding all over the city with the increase in built structures elevating the hardscape percentage leading to compromise on the benefits and positives of the softscapes and greenery in catering to flooding.
Hume World
Understanding the Indian Context, this project; 1. Identifies and enhances existing recurring urban elements. 2. Ensures subconscious usability even as it incorporates the informal sector. 3. Utilizes existing infrastructural material for economic sustainability and ease of fabrication. To create a complete kit of modular, yet diverse - Urban Elements.
Urban Criss: A Modular Bench System That Turns Public Seating Into Urban Landscape
A runner-up at Urbanscape 2018, Urban Criss bends plywood and steel into modular seats scaled for solitude, couples and groups in shared public space.
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.
Revitalising the Sea Point Promenade
In June 2018, Cape Town will be the first major city in the world to run out of drinking water. Our urban landscape has been, for better or worse irrevocably changed. For many people this is a terrifying prospect but for designers like us, it presents an opportunity to create real positive change in the way we look at our impact on the environment.
TIP-TOP URBAN MATES
The modular urban furniture collection is open to a variety of interpretations by its users, stimulating them to come up with new ideas for its use. The location of the project is a rooftop of a parking structure in downtown Portland, Oregon. The objects are made of recycled ocean plastic.
Infinity Bench: Modular Urban Furniture That Refuses to End
A system of steel and timber modules that chain into linear, circular, and serpentine configurations across any public setting.
BOUNdary
The bench is intended to divide the interstitial space between the sidewalks and oncoming traffic; it serves as a traffic barricade to keep errant automobiles from driving onto the sidewalk. The benches also serve as a memorial for people that mourn the loss of a loved one due to traffic incidents, whether from unintentional accidents or acts of terrorism.
Interested projects
nice works and it's well done too