Curvature Bench

For my project, I decided to manipulate the idea of "building bridges" by taking an interpretive approach to my design. I knew that in order to "build bridges" socially, there had to be a gap between two or more communities or identities. This meant that conceptually, I knew I had to create something that had two parts or some type of symmetry that immediately drew a viewer's eyes. Preferably, I wanted a viewer's eyes to direct their vision from the outward regions of my design to the central focus (which happens to be the bench). I attempted to do so by designing the curved forms at either end of the project such that the curves seemed to have been melted then shaped in an industrial turbine. Being that "building bridges" was my main design parameter, I knew that my structure had to incorporate an actual bridge of some sort with the purpose of making each separate aspect of the overall design into one unified form. To do so, I decided to incorporate a ring structure that was actually