BIKE BENCH

Climate Action Hubs

Urban Furniture | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The design in McCowan District Park aims to create a nonstandardized bench that is better adapted to different ways of seating. Positioned along the bike trail, the bench also serves as bike stack as well as bike table, which allows people to use the desk to place their phones, drink or anything else and to sue the bike as a seat. The installation can be used as a whole to provide enough space for people to rest and socialize, but it can also be split into different parts if there are space constraints.

Plant Study

Individual Work

2020 Fall - Until Now

Plant research is an ongoing and cumulative process that occurs throughout the three years of study and will continue after graduation. It involves a good understanding of individual species, the composition, the structural strata of vegetation in nature, seasonality, senses, etc. And there are also reflections on natives versus exotics, formalism versus naturalism, perennials versus annuals, and flower colour versus the chromatics of foliage. Moreover, plants are also an element helping designers shape the physical space and generate genius loci. What is shown here is only part of the studying process. There is a continuous study of how plants participate in the multispecies entanglements of the urban landscape.

Sketches

Individual species and composition study

Earth Sciences Courtyard Replanting

Re-establish the sub-canopy layer for a microcosm of Carolinian forest