The design arises from the desire to create a bench which allows people to find their own way of arranging seats for easier communication. Conventional benches are usually designed for people to sit in the same direction, limiting communication pattern among people.

 

We started thinking of one question: Is the usual way we sit on a bench can really prompt contact or conversation?

 

We came up with a design which can accommodate different ways of sitting. You can sit side by side like sitting on any common type of a bench, or you can pull a seat away from the other part of the bench to allow face to face communication. The side back design allows one’s private space that people can turn aside from others. Seeing tons of exhibition carpet waste being dumped into landfill, we came up with a way to make use of the waste product in which its flexibility to create different forms fits the feature of the bench.