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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.

© 2017 by Fernando Maytorena

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