SeatScape

Guangzhou, China

Type/ Exhibit
Time/ 2016
Client/ Global Garden Life Festival
Team/ GARC + DOT Studio
Manufacturing Collaborator/ Guangdong Shunde Boscher Furniture Co., LTD Plant Product Collaborator/ Guangzhou Ludanya Art and Craft Co., LTD

Outdoor furnishing plays a crucial role in fostering social interactions and people’s contact with nature. However, a piece of outdoor furniture is often designed to serve one single function. It lacks flexibility to respond to a variety of outdoor activities and meet the needs of people with different ages and backgrounds in a specific outdoor context. Therefore, the monotonous function of conventional outdoor furniture should be reexamined. Seatscape is a study that showcases how a design can be achieved that is multifunctional yet uses a few limited components.

Seatscape is intended to explore the possibilities of creating multiple types of combinations. We choose a rhombohedron and a trapezoidal hexahedron, framed with wood slats on four sides, as two basic modular units. In terms of connections between two modules, the alternating pattern of wood frames is the key to interlock with each other without any extra connection parts.

The interlocking of wood is key to creating a connection that is strong and easy for users to manipulate. Adding a piece of meshing cloth to one open side further expands the ways of placement and configurations for outdoor activities. The materials applied are the signature composite wood, stainless steel, and PVC mesh cloth, which all have a long service life and low maintenance cost for outdoor use.