Mud Benches in Public Space
As part of placeArts project we decided to activate some of the public spaces in different communities by making Mud benches which as a gathering space and involves social interaction with the communities.
PlaceArts approached experts from designEarth who uses traditional and local natural materials to build contemporary spaces to guide us and they run several workshops with us to teach the cob building technique.
Cob construction is an ancient building technique using lumps of earth mixed with sand, straw, and water to make homes, chicken coops, barns, and Etc.
workshop at 'Quest Alliance'
First Bench at Vyalikawal Community
we decided to make our first bench at Vyalikawal community as we were going to do for the first time we want to do something small and quick where it was okay to make mistakes and learn and also to experiment. finally it turned out good and we were more confident to do bigger benches and run workshops for other where the community people can come and participate which brings community participation in our projects.
Mud Bench Number 2 at Baiyappanahalli Community
As this time we wanted to do a bigger project so it was time for Baiyappanahalli Community where we decided to to renovate a Children park by activating that space through interactive murals, play structures, seating space and much more.
Technical Drawings of the bench
3D model of the bench
credits:
placeArts youth collective | Arzu Mistry | Jackson Porretta | Selvaraj D | santhosh V | Gautam V | Vijayan | Yelumalai S | Shiva kumar | Krishna K | Santhosh S | Vijay Kumar | Manju | Shail Suneja | Devika G | Yelumalai K
