{"id":4841,"date":"2014-06-14T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2014-06-14T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T16:05:55","slug":"bamboo-bench-by-gal-ben-arav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/bamboo-bench-by-gal-ben-arav\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Bench by Gal Ben-Arav"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli designer Gal Ben-Arav<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

\"Bamboo<\/p>\n

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<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Bamboo<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Bamboo<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Bamboo bench has two narratives:<\/p>\n

My Inspiration to the bench lies in an image that was taken from the 30\u2032s 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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

- Growing bamboo \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

- Building a bench that integrates in the surrounding living environment in an energy-efficient manufacturing process.<\/p>\n

- 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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