Gutterseat

‘GutterSeat’ 2024, Graduate Project

Industrial Design, unsW

Gutterseat

MEtropolitan seating often fosters anti sociaL BEHAVIOUR FROM IT’S USERS DUE TO THE SHORT TIME REQUIREMENT AS WELL AS THE CITY’S DENSITY.

The Problem

fOUND BY lONGITUDINAL eTHNOGRAPHIC rESEARCH

3 Key findings

  1. Privacy was a larger concern for the commuters of Town hall as their priorities were short term seating.

  2. People often avoid the existing seating in Town Hall Square, opting for existing architectural structures that provided privacy.

  3. Social interaction did not occur amongst strangers unless previously acquainted.

  1. research

  2. ideation

  3. refine parameters

  4. tutor feedback

  5. modelling

  6. sketching

  7. cad model

  8. final model/scale model

gANTT cHART

sketches