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Laboral LandSpace

Conceptual cinema seating for six month exhibition in Spanish museum Laboral Centro De Arte Y Creacion Industrial

Project Specifics:
Conceptual, Personal Work, Exhibition, Biomimicry, Specialised Construction, Carboard

Project Details:
Part of a 6 month collection, Nowhere Now Here at the Laboral Centro De Arte Y Creacion Industrial Museum in the northern Spanish city of Gijon.

LandSpace disposes of the dictatorship that many contemporary manufacturing seating employ by re-introducing a level of interaction and interpretability that has long been forgotten in furniture industry. The human body is extremely adaptable and when combined with an individual's unique personality and particular lifestyles the result does not lend well to ergonomic aggregates developed for the human race as a whole. We are not average and should not be told how to find our position of comfort by faceless individuals but instead have the ability to experiment with different positions in a diverse number of scenarios and moods. The outcome of the LandSpace interpretive seating system is an engagement with the environment not usually seen in something as cognitively engraved in our minds as a simple piece of furniture. The search for a comfortable position and the individual testing of different variants of seating within a group is proven to be a more social and interactive experience than that of what is currently manufactured.

LandSpace employs a highly technical geometric construction coined 'Organic Fabrication' to mimic a natural fluidity to further extend and detach itself from contemporary furniture and allow the user a better chance of freshly conceived interpretability. Despite some user's initial reluctance to trust the material and structure LandSpace is capable of engaging a large number of people at any one time. The architectural structure uses the natural material properties of the 100 percent recycled 9mm double fluted cardboard to maximize strength and rigidity in a two-part process. To create the strength required to hold sustain the weight of a number of people a 200 piece underside lattice structure where cardboard fluting is streamlined vertically to provide maximum compression strength. To create the rigidity of the whole and strength of the piece as a whole the faceted 'Organic Fabrication' surface uses the triangulated joins which are calculated to within a hundredth of a degree to ensure maximum rigidity between each of the top components. LandSpace is manufactured at a UK packaging production company, which employs a CandC machine developed specifically for the cardboard industry. The traditional drill bits associated with CandC machining are replaced with a blade, a creasing roller and a pen attachment, all of which are utilized in this production to provide maximum a level of accuracy in the production without which LandSpace would not exist.

Related Link:
www.laboralcentrodearte.org