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Urban Adapter by Rocker-Lange Architects
Rocker-Lange Architects of Boston and Hong Kong are exhibiting a system for creating endlessly variable, site-specific street furniture as part of the Hong Kong & Shenzhen bi-city biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.
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Called Urban Adapter, the project features a computer model that uses data about the intended site to generate the form of a bench, which is then constructed from wooden profiles.
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Litter bins and planters could also be incorporated.
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See our previous stories about the biennale:
Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale photos
A Model City by drdharchitects
Built to Wear by Ball-Nogues Studio
Monster’s Footprint by MAD
Bug Dome by WEAK!
Bloody Haze by MAP Office
Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale photos
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Mésarchitectures
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Here's some more information from Rocker-Lange Architects:
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"Urban Adapter" - New Urban Street Furniture for Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's urban furniture contains multiple functional objects. Each of them belongs to a different set of formal expression or is part of a different style.
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While variation is obvious in the style mix of Hong Kong's public furniture, there is a lack of uniformity in the formal expression that could foster a unique Hong Kong identity.
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This design proposal for a contemporary city bench seeks to understand the concept of street furniture as a holistic design problem.
Instead of offering only one single static design, this scheme suggests multiple varying solutions that meet specific fitness criteria.
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The project "Urban Adapter" is based on a digital parametric model. At its core the model utilizes explicit site information and programmatic data to react and interact with its environment.
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That way the model's DNA structure is capable of producing a variety of unique furniture results.
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Together they generate an endless family of new urban bench furniture. Rather than having a fixed form the members of the family can adapt to different site conditions and programmatic needs.
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While all of the designs have the ability to serve as a seating element, some have additional programmatic values added, such as recycling containers, flower buckets or billboards serving for advertisement or educational purposes.
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The generated functional surface invites the user to new seating and communication arrangements and establishes a unique identity for the urban space of Hong Kong.
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