Silver A' Design Award Winner 2025
This audio description presents a sculptural public bench photographed against an architectural backdrop. Scanning from background to foreground, a grid of olive-green metal bars, warm like dried herbs, creates a regular pattern of rectangles extending across the full width of the image and beyond its edges. Through this transparent screen, soft-focus greenery and pale architectural surfaces suggest an interior courtyard or transitional space. The floor consists of polished concrete in cool gray tones, smooth as river stone, reflecting natural light in elongated bright passages that stretch toward the viewer. Dominating the center and lower portion of the composition, the bench itself appears crafted from cast stone or concrete in warm cream tones reminiscent of natural limestone or sun-bleached bone. The form undulates organically, rising and falling in gentle curves that suggest eroded geological formations or abstracted landscape. At the left end, a low cylindrical platform perhaps fifteen centimeters high offers one seating option. Moving rightward, the surface rises through stepped terraces, each level separated by crisp horizontal edges, creating varied seating heights and orientations. A central depression or valley interrupts the mass, its shadowed interior suggesting coolness and shelter. The right portion continues the ascending rhythm, culminating in a taller cylindrical element that serves as armrest or backrest. The overall silhouette reads as biomorphic, organic, avoiding rigid geometry while maintaining structural clarity. Natural light enters from the upper left, casting warm diagonal striations across the curved surfaces and creating gentle gradients within the carved recesses. The texture appears slightly granular, matte, with the tactile quality of fine sandstone, smooth enough to sit upon comfortably while retaining visual interest. A small metallic plaque near the base provides maker identification. The bench occupies approximately the central third of the composition vertically and nearly the full width horizontally, presenting as a substantial presence approximately one hundred fifty centimeters in length and varying between thirty and fifty centimeters in height.
The Arisa bench is a sculptural piece that redefines urban seating through its modular design and organic form. Inspired by the golden ratio, Arisa features varying heights that encourage diverse interactions in public spaces. Its sleek yet durable construction, made from lightweight concrete, allows for both functional use and artistic integration. Designed to foster community engagement, Arisa seamlessly adapts to different environments, promoting social interaction while maintaining its long-lasting structural integrity.