Article 02, paisea 015. The design and production of urban furniture | Diego Gómez Fernández
Urban furniture encompasses all the products that meet people’s needs in public and/or collective spaces, and which are generally grouped into four major types of services: lighting, directions/boundaries, waste management and, of course, recreation. The increasing importance given to public spaces and man-made landscapes has led to an improved provision of furniture and to constant evolution in its typologies. It is increasingly common for furniture to be designed specifically for a project, in response to its particular needs of form and use. It has also become common, following the creative effort involved in this, to try to make further use of the product by putting it on the market to be used in other equipment and projects.
The production of urban furniture is a balancing act, and for this reason it is difficult to define. The catalogue of a company which is involved in several of the fields mentioned above might contain anything from 12-metre street lights featuring sophisticated aluminium injection pieces and electronic components to 1000kg planters produced entirely in concrete with cast aluminium benches and wooden strips.
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