Furnish Green

Building on the previous post, a few selections of the insertion of vegetation into furnishings and other elements of our urban environments. This includes furnishings such as the Romeo and Juliet bench spotted via Contemporist as well as some other more integrated concepts.


:: image via Contemporist

Next, via People and Place is a gabion bench with an icing of vegetation - spelling out, for what I'm sure is a good reason, the word Time? Cool detail for a somewhat random assemblage.


:: image via People and Place

Next, via DesignBoom, is a bench that again uses sod as an additional material - in this case as a centerpiece for some organically arranged seating nodes - arranged for variety and social interaction.




:: images via DesignBoom

As we see the insertion of plants to many building aspects, it's also interesting to see how it has been included in other ubiquitous urban accessories, for instance these bus stops clad in vegetation.


:: image via Urban Greenery

The most inventive version are these parking lines usurped by nature in 'Nature On A Tape' by designer Ji-Hye Koo: "There’s this whole movement about bringing back nature into the concrete jungles we’ve built in the past 100 years. Those painted line dividers we see everywhere serve a huge purpose but in an attempt to humanize and naturalize them... essentially a pre-potted strip of grass that’ll grow with no effort."


:: image via Urban Greenery

Cool idea (aside from the inverted imagery on the ADA space) but I'd posit that 'no effort' is hardly plausible. I'd give these a week before they are a mere, muddy, memory.