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Mitchell Seating
Project: Mitchell Streetscape
Client: Booringa Shire Council
Completed: 2002 - 2004
  
Materials: Recycled Machinery Parts, Ironbark, CNC Cut Steel, Hand Cut Tiles, LEDs, Custom Fabricated Light Fittings
Features: Low Energy Lighting, Recycled Materials
 

The 'Chunky Seat' has been constructed primarily from locally grown and milled Ironbark Timber (300 x 300mm slabs). The seat ends have been made from CNC cut steel and purposely aged (rusted) with acid and salt baths, then sealed. The rebates at each end feature hand cut mosaic tiles. The 'Chunky Seat' is the principal seat design for the streetscape and features in a number of build outs.

The 'S Seat' features recycled machine parts, integrated planters and mosaics by local artist, Jude Roberts. 40 custom designed LED light fittings are embedded in the planter rims.

The 'Pentagonal Seat' surrounds a relocated, mature bottle tree and references the shape of a locally significant, exisiting seat. The seat is set on a pentagonal deck and is highlighted at night with 5 LED ground lights.

The 'Anti-Loitering Seat' is a conceptual artwork designed to look like a remnant of turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) streetscaping. The seat highlights the change of attitudes from a time when loitering in the street wasn't encouraged to the current trend of shopping street renewal, inviting people to linger. Whilst the seat doesn't actually function it has been designed as though it could - the act of sitting activates a mechical timer and after 10 mins the seat rotates dislodging loiterers.

 
Image 1: Chunky Seat
Image 2: 'S' Seat
Image 3: Pentagonal Seat
Image 4: Anti-Loitering Seat

 
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