An EVDS-based design team has been named as a finalist in The Battery Conservancy Americas "Draw Up A Chair" Design Competition in New York City.
With over 675 submissions to this international competition the EVDS team consisting of Assistant Professor Jason Johnson and Master of Architecture students Mahdiar Ghaffarian, Guy Gardner, and Ryan Cook, are one group of only 50 finalists.
Their project, flexchair is an iconic piece of urban furniture that integrates the many ways we use our urban parks into a sculptural, durable, comfortable and adaptable chair. It gives city residents a place to anchor themselves on a visit to Battery Park. The perforation pattern is a stunning combination of formal complexity and functional adaptation. The varied sizes of perforations can hold your cup, or maybe an umbrella for shade, lock your bike or even your laptop to the chair, or maybe hold your markers for that sketch you are drawing.
Flexible and adaptable the flexchair will be re-defined by all those who find new ways to use it.
The Battery Conservancy created the Draw Up a Chair Competition to reinforce its mission to foster design excellence and innovation in the public domain. The winning design will be fabricated for the public’s use in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan - New York City’s birthplace and original waterfront park.
For more information on the Battery Conservancy, the design competition and flexchair, click here.
