Balancing Act

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.