Hello everyone ,

I’ll first start with how I came up with this idea of a shelter  bench. My idea came with the inspiration of nature, which often gives a great panel of systems to analyse. When I observed the mushroom and its composition I wondered about its symbolic application, its forms created a spark in my imagination. I looked at how the rhizomes create a network in the soil, that made me think about how everything is connected today with social networks. I thought about creating this bench for urban use and then the idea was simple : built a circular bench with luminiscence cap and vertical pole that could be implanted in parks. It had to be iconic so that poeple would remember it. Then i had the idea to make the seat more confortable when I studied the 60’s design of Paulin and Steiner. I started skeching some ideas then went into details of forms and dimension as well as the system of how the parts are put together. Then we made a 3D model with Sebastien Rosel that we have charched Sculpteo with the mission to 3Dprint. I’m quite happy with the result we will deposit the model soon, I’m not settled yet to find funds for this project. For those who wish to contact me or submit other ideas or questions related to this project you can go at asensio.antoine@orange.fr