Header: Florian Groehn
Canberra, a city always witnessing innovation and creativity, just welcomed a new suburb. The Denman Prospect is a modern precinct where clean lines and random pops of colour give residents a quiet luxury that is hard to find anywhere else.
Landscapes and plants aren’t the only necessary elements of a street, as outside furniture and decor can also help craft a street’s character and invite people to come out and enjoy the location.
Street + Garden collaborated with the Redbox Design Group to create the benches and any necessary objects that would promote social interaction and public well-being. The result is a modern and comfortable set of street furniture that adds personality to the new suburb and sets it apart from others in the same city.
The unique products
Redbox Design Group created the concept of the new furniture elements, crafting them from rubber wood, stainless steel, and precast concrete.
Some of the items the public can find scattered around the new suburb are custom platform benches, bin enclosures, bike racks, bollards, and concrete backless benches.
The benches, unique in form, were developed through the combination of adjacent curved rubberwood panels that changed shape over the length of the bench. This specific material was chosen because of its ability to bend and take on almost any form desired.
The other products consist of the same rubberwood material, however, combined with steel and concrete. The result is, in the words of Street + Garden, a “holistic and considered solution“.
The new suburb is already making headlines, so the two design studios had a difficult job on their own when they were tasked with its decoration. Redbox Design Group wanted to design a unique and highly customised set of furniture that would show the progressive and modern architectural style of the suburb. This cohesiveness makes the suburb unique since the design marvels can be seen anywhere: in the buildings and the streets.
