This Bench Provides Emergency Shelter

The term hostile architecture often refers to designs for public spaces which discourage homeless camping. Ellen Hallström, a student at the Lund University School of Industrial Design in Sweden proposes the opposite motivation in her recent design titled Driftwood.

The bench design offers common seating rest for anyone. But at night or in foul weather conditions, one half folds over the other, providing shelter for sleep. If I understand the design correctly, the slats are shaped to drive the rain down the roof rather than through it. The appropriate name for the piece, Driftwood, suggests that society's drifters may find a place to stay.

-via Core 77


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