What: Public; Interactive Bench.
Where: Copenhagen, Denmark.
When: Finished 2011.
By: Arcgency/MAPT. Sune Petersen.
Where: Copenhagen, Denmark.
When: Finished 2011.
By: Arcgency/MAPT. Sune Petersen.
The first interactive bench in the world invites you to play, move and experience the urban space in a new way. A bench which changes color and pattern as you pass by, has sprung up in the middle of Copenhagen’s ‘Islands Brygge’.
The bench is situated at the newly restored urban space above the underground parking facility in Leifsgade, Island Brygge in Copenhagen. The idea for the interactive element arose when the Municipality of Copenhagen had to restore the urban space after completing a two year building process of an underground parking facility. Copenhagen based architectural office Arcgency/MAPT is behind the concept and development of the bench. At nightfall it lights up like a playful and poetic element between the new playground and football pitch. The vision of an urban space which communicates has become reality in collaboration with interaction designer Sune Petersen.
'The Playful Bench' can be explored every day when darkness falls, and is active daily from 5 pm to 10 pm. The urban space where the bench can be found is situated in Leifsgade on the stretch between Bergthoragade and Gunløgsgade.
