Balancing Act: Social Piling

Supporting the body and framing vision according to Graphic Standards and modern ergonomics, the chair decimates the diverse cultural impact that the act of sitting has cultivated throughout history. Furniture, especially the chair, should not redefine sitting as an individual object but as a collective environment with its dynamic structure in response to the human body.

Balancing Act: Social Piling reveals how the body and the surface can extrapolate a spatial relationship in order to develop new modes of sitting. Each individual unit has their own names and characteristics, yet can be configured in new forms of collectives through user’s interactions. The project proposes a design through which a cohort with collaborative seatscapes exist with different groupings of people. The attitude of the furniture and the positions of the users will create the program of space in a range of settings: private, public and domestic.

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In addition to Giedion’s reference to the furniture formalizing the body, this project studies how the new body of technology reacts to the social and physical changes through the effect of the suggestive color scheme, tactile forms and degendered objects. Working space is therefore identified through people’s interrelations, and organize as an ever changing constellation.

Project demonstrates how the interaction between the body and its surroundings can inform spatial dynamics, paving the way for innovative seating arrangements. The project aims to craft a communal experience through shared landscapes accommodating various groups of individuals. The arrangement of furniture and the postures of individuals will define the space's function, be it private, public, or domestic in nature.