Laurens Kolks > spatial design

Memorial Bench

production

This bench was created to commemorate the untimely passing of a colleague at St. Joost School of Art & Design.

It was explicitly designed as a utilitarian object: a public piece of furniture created to be used by the entire academy community – well beyond the group of students and colleagues that actually knew her.

The bench design seeks to establish a spatial relationship with a memorial tree planted for the same occasion, defining an accessible and inviting, yet intimate space for possible contemplation. Its form and materialization facilitate a number of configurations for sitting or lying down (alone or together), either facing, or not facing, the tree, allowing for various states of intimacy. The multicoloured washers separating the wooden planks from the steel frame are a subtle nod to the unique person the bench aims to memorialize.

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