PUBLIC furniture //
Kolding River
The area and rest places facing Kolding River
“… city equipment and façade detailing with numerous applications are generally recommendable and it usually implies that life in around it will be more inspiring…”
The Area During the last few years there has been a lot of focus on the Kolding River and the area around it – especially the raw unused areas such as the one the New River Park is going to be built upon. It has had the time and piece to grow wildly and now it stands out as a unique spot in Kolding. The area will function as a place for recreational- as well as business purposes and it will have the river as its center - the new University of Southern Denmark as its beginning and the harbor as its ending.
Åstederne - the rest places Along the riverside there will be built rest places named “Åsteder” – these are the focus of this project. People have a very intuitive and dynamic behavior in the public. They give a lot to the space that they are in, but spaces can also define how people react and behave - this is the key stone in this project.
Jan Gehl. “Life between the Houses”. Page 154.
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Research
The new river park, Kolding
Dynamic behavior
SDU Kolding, Henning Larsen Architects
Wild nature
Path along the riverside
“… you will get far with honest materials… use various woods, concrete and steel since they are all hard materials…”. Thomas Thinghuus, Kolding Technical Department Thomas Thinghuus, landscape architect, Kolding Kommune
Peter Christensen, eel storage,1920
“... you will discover that people will use even the smallest surfaces and occupy the public space in their own way”. Torben Gade, GBL Architects Torben Gade, GBL Architects
BACHELOR 2010 // INDUSTRIAL DESIGN // KOLDING SCHOOL OF DESIGN // TOBIAS TØSTESEN
PUBLIC furniture //
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Concept
6 “Åsteder” - 6 different furniture sequences As you walk along the riverside in the New RIver Park, you will experience 6 furniture platforms. Every platform displays a new way of combining 3 modules: 2 benches and 1 table.
The goal The goal is to use the dynamics and curiosity of human behavior. The different combinations is planned to lead to new interpretations of how to react and behave around furniture in public spaces, and give each rest place a unique life.
SIX MODULAR FURNITURE PLATFORMS which relate to human and spatial dynamics
Poetry
Natural patterns
Light patterns connecting the rest places
Open spaces with a natural roof
Easy access to the riverside
BACHELOR 2010 // INDUSTRIAL DESIGN // KOLDING SCHOOL OF DESIGN // TOBIAS TØSTESEN
PUBLIC furniture //
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Design
The design consists of a meeting between surfaces, materials, surroundings and a new conception of how to use furniture in public spaces. The tender larch wood feel and the raw surface of the fiber concrete meet in a contrast between natural and manmade.
Each module is made of 4 surfaces that rest on each other and assemble in the middle. In profile they are broad in the end facing the middle and they thin out where they are visible. The 3 levels and the large surfaces make the furniture modules flexible regarding use. As an application the table comes with either a barbeque- or activity box.
Combination. Activity box
Combination
Detail
Detail. Barbeque and tiles
BACHELOR 2010 // INDUSTRIAL DESIGN // KOLDING SCHOOL OF DESIGN // TOBIAS TĂ˜STESEN
Larch wood is found in the Danish forests. It contains a lot of resin and has very solid core, which means that its natural impregnated, and perfect for outside use. It also gets a beautiful patina during time - this makes it long lasting. Fiber concrete is concrete mixed with fiberglass and it has a high tensile and flexural strength that allows the manufacture of very large elements in thin dimensions.
PUBLIC furniture // Rain Collectors Pressure Point
Profile thickness
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Technical Drawings and Details
v Widht 840 mm
1:8
Height 920 mm
Height 720 mm
Lenght 3600 mm
Lenght 2800 mm
Height 500 mm
BACHELOR 2010 // INDUSTRIAL DESIGN // KOLDING SCHOOL OF DESIGN // TOBIAS TĂ˜STESEN