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Bamboo Bench by Gal Ben-Arav

June 14, 2014
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Israeli designer Gal Ben-Arav has created a bench using raw bamboo and cast aluminum. The bench was created as a final project at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Bamboo Bench by Gal Ben-Arav

Sustainable is a wide concept. I chose to deal with it in the context of raw material, living environment, localism, and sustainable system Gal Ben-Arav

Bamboo Bench by Gal Ben-Arav

The bamboo plant is renewed very quickly, therefore energetically efficient, with high mechanical strength and durability to weather conditions. Bamboo has wide range of configurations as a raw material, from its raw form, through compressed plates to veneer processing.

Bamboo Bench by Gal Ben-Arav

I chose to use bamboo in its raw form. In this way, the processing is minimal as well as the invested energy, it can be 100% recycled and the out coming morphology creates a new micro-wild natural environment that can be situated in an urban, industrial and gray environment and revive it.

Bamboo bench has two narratives:

My Inspiration to the bench lies in an image that was taken from the 30′s from my childhood landscapes with two workers leading bundles of papyrus through a swamp (see below). This photograph personally connected me to the bench and guided me to the wild morphology of the design.

The second narrative is the narrative of the product life cycle. Bamboo is not a characteristic species to the Middle East, but its origins are in Asia, however today it is grown in a controlled manner here in Israel. In my vision such a bench reflects a complete system that maintains itself through a life cycle that is built on three repeated main stages that preserve the sustainability values in a full manner:

– Growing bamboo – Establishment of a new agricultural industry, creating new economic opportunities, new sources of income and making the bamboo a local material that saves the need to import.

– Building a bench that integrates in the surrounding living environment in an energy-efficient manufacturing process.

– Recycling the raw material following weathering processes or vandalism that occurs frequently to street furniture. Used bamboo can be recycled to produce packaging or for many other purposes.

Through the design process, I tried to keep the materialism of the bamboo, its natural morphology, its simplicity, but on the other hand, to create a conflict and tension between the natural bamboos to the industrial aluminum casting Gal Ben-Arav

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