Poller Flower

Useful information

Team members: Bálint Takács [BNGdesign] Norbert Buchnitz [BNGdesign] Gergely Kovacs [BNGdesign]
Country: Hungary
Keywords: urban furniture on demand download design adjustable by parametric design plywood only

Short Description

It provides on-demand seat on anti-parking pollers, thus makes restrictive elements socially useful.

Detailed Description

The original piece was ordered by a local cultural association (Bartok Bela Boulevard) for their spring festival. Its goals were to provide a seat, be interactive, show BBB colors, draw attention of pedestrians. The quest was successful, we made a street furniture out of a poller. After its good reception, we decided to cooperate with Fablab (DDMP OCFI) to optimize the design for DDMP. Now it is more minimalistic and CNC-routable from 1 side, this technology is available in every Fablab around the world.

It can be easily mounted on a poller with 2 collars/clamps. Maximum of 3 Poller Flowers can be attached to the same poller(side-by-side). The original 3D modell was ported to parametric design software, so material thickness and poller radius can be adjusted on demand.

The design files and manual is available on wikifactory: https://projects.fablabs.io/+fablabbudapest/poller-flower

Project Details

Does your design take social and cultural challenges and human wellbeing into consideration?: A plywood flower in the concrete jungle. It eases the often unbearable everyday city life/grind. Builds community. People now can rest where they could not before.

Does your design support sustainable production, embodying circular or regenerative design practices?: The design uses only plywood, wood glue(optional), wood finish. Plywood is bio-degradable or recyclable after product lifecycle.

Does your design use principles of distribution and open source?: The design is distributed via DDMP. It is downloadable and customizable.
https://projects.fablabs.io/+fablabbudapest/poller-flower