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Vienna Design Week 2014: Sebastian Marbacher's 'Baustellen-Bank'

By Sam Dunne - October 2, 2014

in Design Festivals

Recent Swiss design graduate Sebastian Marbacher has taken to the streets in Vienna, exhibiting some of his furniture as part of the festivities this week. Sebastian caught our eye immediately with his clever 'Baustellen-Bank' (translating from the German as 'Building Site Bench'), a bench made from a simple hack of components usually used to block public access from building sites.

Sebastian was inspired to take action when a recent boom in building work in central Zurich made the city less than hospitable for pedestrians. He put up these make-shift benches in over twenty spots around the centre of the city—many of them being tolerated by builders and local authorities and used regularly by the public.

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Toby

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It does sag alarmingly in use - perhaps just doubling up the slats in the seat would take care of that?
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jerimiah

10 years ago

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Stupid idea structurally.
Who wants to sit on a rebar(construction bar that can hurt your tail bone.
Dumb idea!
The "bench""bends when you sit in the middle causing the ends to point up.
Police barricade , couldn't the designer think of something better than a color that make one feel like they live in a controlled society

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