Street Furniture Transforms Infrastructure into Seating
Oliver Show's utilitarian yet comfy furniture designs are created around existing city structures.
Oliver Show's 'Street Furniture' has been taking over the streets of Hamburg, Germany, creating utilitarian yet comfortable seating out of existing city structures. By wrapping and securing flexible drainage pipes around the downtown infrastructure, Show hopes to reclaim the city for the public.
Not necessarily designed for aesthetic pleasure, Show's pieces gather their charm from their intentionally simple, low-maintenance design. “The interventionist and experimental approach to me is more important than the quest for a ‘perfect’ product,” says Show, who has earned a design award from the HFBK Leinemann Foundation for Education and the Arts for 'Street Furniture'.
Each installation is ingeniously resourceful: low-cost and weather-resistant. They are all entirely user-friendly as well. Suddenly, a bridge is an armchair, and a bike rack is a sofa, each beckoning to Hamburg residents, urging them to sit down and stay a while.
[via Architizer]
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