(via Designboom)
Designed by American graduate student Matt Gray, “Bench Rack” is a combination bike rack and bench seating hybrid. The product is the result of a challenge to integrate Corian surfacing into an unconventional design solution, a collaborative project between the Furniture Design Department of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and C.H. Briggs, distributor of specialty building products.
In addition to providing urban furniture that facilitates walking and bicycling, “Bench rack” upholds in its production process the US green building council’s standards for sustainable operations and maintenance.
This is an intriguing design. I’m not sure how much of a fan I am, but I could see it being useful (though, in actual fact, the most sustainable and efficient thing to do would likely be to put the benches and bike racks we have now back-to-back with each other).
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