Green Roof Bench
Design & Fabrication: Dion Gery, Ellie Grammelsberger, Ben Trend & Fernando Maytorena
Date: May 2013
Tutor: Michael Howard (RMIT University)
Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, VRay & InDesign
Fabrication Technique: CNC milling
Materials: Birch plywood and Tasmanian Oak dowels




























RMIT University recently decided to transform its roofs into public space and to fill these with specially designed green roof modules. My team was handed the task to design a module-specific bench prototype to serve as public space furniture.
Five Birch plywood profiles serve as vertical support for the bench, while thirty scattered Tasmanian Oak dowels where set as seating support in order to avoid the bench from hindering solar incidence and rain water to fill their purpose of plant growing. Ergonomics standards were taken in consideration for maximum comfort; support-wise, the bench can easily carry two over-one-hundred-pound people.