Urban Furniture

Urban Furniture

ISBN: 978-988-12616-8-7 Size: 248﹡290mm Pages: 240 Judging from its title, Urban Furniture may lead you to the idea of modern, elegant and exquisite furniture in grand shopping malls. However, it’s actually all about city public facilities, such as fountains, playground apparatus, signage systems, bike racks, etc. Urban furniture is regarded as the carrier of new functions and new directions for our societies, hence plays a key part in witnessing the city’s transformation. As demographers announce that by 2026 84% of the population of industrialized countries will dwell large cities, the significance of urban furniture indeed concerns us more and more.

While grouping together more than 500 public elements and systems, this book is never intended to be seen as informative. What we put our best effort in is to showcase the most recent and innovative aspects of city life, no matter they are in an aesthetic way, or formal, functional, even playful one. The city has its inherent task to share, thus raising the stakes in our willingness to live together. Urban furniture, working as the vital bridge of sharing, has to be historic, diverse and successful. And you will understand all these substances in our book.

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Emergency Shelter Exhibition - Brisbane Jun Sakaguchi Architectus Kollar

Organiser: Designer:

Photography: Gutav

Shelter is an essential requirement of human existence. Protection from wind, rain, heat and cold is critical for survival, while light, breeze, privacy, aspect and community are essential for meaningful and satisfying habitation. what are the key priorities for our emergency shelter?

Built quickly and easily by unskilled labour.

Transitional, a place to shelter while permanent, locally appropriate structures are rebuilt. All materials are lightweight and flat packed, can be carried by people and can be reused and recycled in the permanent structures.

Adaptable to various locations, ground conditions and functional requirements, modular and able to be linked together.

daylight and ventilation and includes rainwater collection.

Temporary and lightweight in nature suitable for

Adaptable to uneven or unsafe ground conditions (i.e. rubble, wet)Modular and robust Corflute

a warm tropical or temperate climate with natural

sheets are pre-cut and slotted together to form a 3

dimensional, ‘honey- comb’ base that is stabilised by being filled with found objects like sand, rubble etc Plastic containers sit under the plinth and are

can also store water, and be re-used. Shelters are given individual identity by closing off the ends of the shelter with local materials that are selected by the occupants. These materials could include found sheeting, woven mats, plastic sheeting, bamboo screens etc.

stacked up to make the plinth level Containers

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Waldkirchen This small garden festival is based on a decentralised exhibition concept. The main area of the garden exhibition is designed as a loop path from the core of the garden exhibition, the new Waldkirchen urban park, via old town to the characteristic areas in and near Waldkirchen.

Rehwaldt LA, Dresden Area: 7,5 ha Client: Natur in Waldkirchen 2007 GmbH Photographer: Rehwaldt LA, Dresden Designer:

As the main feature of the garden exhibition a new urban park was developed on the south-eastern edge of the old town, along brook Waeschlbach.

Through reorganisation of existing streets, parking sites and a bus stop a spacious entrance square to the urban park and the garden exhibition could be established. Here, all main events and activities take place. “Landschaftsbalkone” (scenic

balconies) are offering special views into the surrounding landscape and are explaining them.

The Waeschlbach valley features a variety of scenic and historic sites like the natural landmark “Gsteinet“, floodplain forests and hillside meadows along Waeschlbach, as well as some protected habitats in an urban context. Along the elongated meadows the manifold topographies and the diverse landforms were used to develop differentiated gardens and to provide great views into the landscape. Within the garden exhibition a new open space system was established which links the urban park and the adjacent residentials through new paths.

Within the structural facilities and design focuses the Waldkirchen´s characteristic location as part of the Bavarian Forest was respected.

Therefore, the material wood plays an important roll as functional and

artistic element. The elements of the urban park as entrance square, urban promenade, water stair case, cherry gardens, pond and Waeschlbach as well as the spacious meadows with the „Gsteinet” are understood and designed as self-contained areas. Manifold views beyond the park borders enlarge the spatial impression of the park.

An additional focus of the garden exhibition is the garden “Bellevue“ along the loop path. It represents the city’s character besides the other municipal open spaces as market-

place, cemetery, urban park and sports fields.

At the “Bellevue“ the unique view at Waldkirchen was used and staged through a self-contained design.

Waterbound paths frame the shrub and bush plantings and show the inside and outside areas. On a spatial view point a water fountain was placed which is playground and recreational zone in one. On historic site of Waldkirchen´s water reserve the site was new interpreted by using instruments of contemporary landscape architecture.

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Emergency Shelter Exhibition - Brisbane Jun Sakaguchi Architectus Photography: Gutav Kollar Organiser: Designer:

Shelter is an essential requirement of human existence. Protection from wind, rain, heat and cold is critical for survival, while light, breeze, privacy, aspect and community are essential for meaningful and satisfying habitation. what are the key priorities for our emergency shelter?

Built quickly and easily by unskilled labour.

Transitional, a place to shelter while permanent, locally appropriate structures are rebuilt. All materials are lightweight and flat packed, can be carried by people and can be reused and recycled in the permanent structures.

Adaptable to various locations, ground conditions and functional requirements, modular and able to be linked together.

Temporary and lightweight in nature suitable for a warm tropical or temperate climate with natural

daylight and ventilation and includes rainwater collection.

Adaptable to uneven or unsafe ground conditions (i.e. rubble, wet)Modular and robust Corflute sheets are pre-cut and slotted together to form a 3

dimensional, ‘honey- comb’ base that is stabilised by being filled with found objects like sand, rubble etc Plastic containers sit under the plinth and are stacked up to make the plinth level Containers

can also store water, and be re-used. Shelters are given individual identity by closing off the ends of the shelter with local materials that are selected by the occupants. These materials could include found sheeting, woven mats, plastic sheeting, bamboo screens etc.

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Poubelle Liberty Designer:

Radar Pixel

KLD

Chat Maigre is inspired by the famous fabrics Liberty of London.

Designer:

KLD

Like a gardener enamoured of the colors, he sows the subtle prints for the new season.

Chat Maigre appears where is least expected. This time it's in Paris, Pont de l'Alma.

He invites the sun and sky color to pass through the inflorescences for creating flowery landscapes in every place easily.

He pilots the colours at the speed of light for getting out of

the urban asphyxia.

Its Radar Pixel invites also to a more relaxed and smiley driving.

Slow down in order to appreciate the great power of colors!

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Beijing Green Building Park The Beijing Welcome Centre is a project for a gateway exhibition building for a new sustainable industry park in Beijing. The building is based on the principle of manipulating a box envelope for environmental and contextual concerns in order to make a building which is low tech and low

cost. The first manipulation is to join the existing car park to the R&D centre and the park loop.

This allows the public to walk over the building and experience the park in a different height, first getting an overview before descending into it. The second series of manipulations are based around

sustainability, blocking the cold north Beijing winter wind, promoting the cool southeast summer wind, creating shadow to the south and moveable sun shading / solar cells to the east and west. The building becomes a result of a series of pragmatic scientific operations making a piece of architecture which is ingrained in the site and promotes the notion of low tech sustainability.

Vanke JDS, Transsolar, MUDI Project Leader: Charlotte Lieske, Henning Stuben Client: Team:

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Basket Storker Designer:

Mark Jenkins

Tape babies are place in different environment in different cities around the world. Around 120 babies so far. the idea is a sort of species propagation making the babies like insects.

Designer: Thomas

Andersson

This striking litterbin reinvents the traditional woven wastepaper basket by replacing its fibres with sleek metal spines. Traditionally, baskets were created as functional items, but today the practice of basket-making is likened to an art form.

Basket combines function and form in an efficient outdoor litterbin constructed with a cylindrical container and a basket-like protective outer casing. Its wide mouth makes it an easy target for waste items, which disappear into the container below.

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