Single scatter
Text by Carmela Bogman:
Furniture for public space mostly consists out of a long or short bench made out of steel or wood, preferably accompanied by a garbage bin and a streetlight. Contemporary public space, however, demands flexibility in composition and use. Furniture to scatter around.
Single Scatter is candy for public space. The chairs and stools, made of folded stainless steel, are like sparkling diamonds on the outer space floor. With a coloured core as desired, Single Scatter can be combined as preferred and is weather proof and solid. Together as a cloud or in a straight line, the different compositions made with Single Scatter create the possibility for the user to sit close together or far apart, facing each other or turned away.
Single Scatter is a design of Carmela Bogman/HOSPER and is manufactured by Rots Maatwerk. The first hundred and forty Single Scatters were placed on the C-M!ne square in Genk, Belgium.
About Carmela Bogman –Art and Design for Public Space-
Carmela Bogman places the emphasis on people in her designs for public space with projects that are art as well as design. All projects start with a research in the plan area and are focused on the present landscape elements, the inhabitants and the cultural history. Bogman believes in the power of detail.
Since the beginning Bogman works together with different professions, such as architects and landscape architects. As an assistant designer Bogman was involved in the winning design proposal for the new rail station furniture in The Netherlands under the authority of Blom & Moors (2007), the design of the Perm Embankment Park furniture in Russia (2009) in cooperation with HOSPER and KCAP and the Pop-Up together with Rogier Martens (2010).
Apart from her designs Bogman also explores the boundaries of her profession by research. Such as Creative Coasts, a research about the function of water in the city of Gdansk, Poland and My Way or the Highway a research about private road ownership under the authority of the province Overijssel. From 2011 Bogman organizes together with Femke Glas (BNO), GO live. A series of visits and discussions with sustainability as the main topic.
About HOSPER, landscape architecture and urban design
HOSPER is a multi disciplinary design-office for landscape architecture, urban planning, outdoor space and objects. The assignments on which HOSPER work are varied but always require the ability to generate new and creative ideas. HOSPER has a young and enthusiastic team, within which several design disciplines are represented: landscape architecture, urban planning and industrial design. The source of inspiration is the landscape.
HOSPER attempts to translate the demands made by our times on the environment into a new layer. The office retains respect for the underlying historic layers while creating new opportunities for the future. Our most important priority in doing this, is to cherish the experience of space. Space which has not been built upon is the foundation of our designs. The ambition is to produce lucid spaces in which the major forces are recognizable and all elaboration of detail forms an essential part of the concept. Functionality is very important but a design in its totality is more than the sum of a programme of demands translated into space. Elements which are unusual or even cocksure can grant a space a healthy tension and poetic significance.
The HOSPER office does not have a dogmatic design style. HOSPER plans vary from restrained and unassuming to exuberant and compelling, but remain in all cases designs which can be taken for granted on that site and within that programme. Within the HOSPER projects there is a continuous optimistic search for possibilities to find a balance between economic and ecologic developments. Not only ecological sustainability, but also social and economic durability are used to give the city and landscape the necessary resilience in ongoing changes.
The commissions of the HOSPER office are often wide-ranging and they differ widely in character. The team has become used to working with experts from other disciplines in an open planning process. The actual task here is not to become bogged down in compromises, but to continue to make clear choices together.
HOSPER has 2 office locations; in Haarlem (NL) and Stockholm (SE); both work national and international. www.hosper.nl or www.hosper.se
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