FLOKKK investigates how public furniture can encourage gathering through the spatial behaviour of animal communities.
Inspired by the collective organisation of grazing flocks, the project explores how individual elements become more meaningful when arranged as a group. Rather than defining a single way of sitting or meeting, the modular system allows people to negotiate their own relationships with one another and with the surrounding public space.
2009
Animal Community ↔ Public Space
Individual ↔ Collective
Furniture ↔ Gathering
Movement ↔ Occupation
Contributors
Concept
Samu Hapák
Design
Edit Szabó
Architecture
Johanna Muszbek
User Experience Design
Viktor Bedő
Photography & Art Direction
Péter Hapák
The project translates the social behaviour of a flock into an architectural system.
Each element functions independently, yet gains new possibilities when combined with others. Standing and seated forms create different ways of gathering, resting and communicating, allowing the users themselves to become part of the flock.
The investigation asks how public furniture can organise encounters without prescribing them, creating informal places for conversation, waiting and shared occupation.
