Over/Under — Laura-India Garinois

fig.2 Exterior community zone

2016OVER-UNDER
Urban Public Bench Reinvented

Winnipeg, Canada • Collaboration with Liam Martin / Superinfra

Over-Under challenges the typical understanding of a public bench by turning inward. Alongside additional seating and bike storage created, the orientation of the seating dramatizes the ordinary, mundane dialogue between the street and the sidewalk, creating new opportunities for connectivity and conversation. A simple, welded structure made of circular and square steel sections support ten plywood steps, en face,while a translucent, acrylic screen anchors and embraces the whole. All materials for the bench were repurposed and recycled after its disassembly.

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Awarded 1st Place by STUFFgroup, Featured in Cornell AAP News,
Cornell University AAP Spring 2017 Newsletter, and The Street is a Public Space by STUFFgroup

fig.1 Bench across from the MAKEcoffee storefront

fig.3 Bench in use

fig.2 Exterior perspective

fig.4 Bench components

fig.5 Elevation and plan

fig.6 Bench in use

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