Design advice towards an art installation :)

[ehcsztein]

I am currently nipple deep in designing part of a large scale art installation and thought y'all might be able to provide some much needed insight.

I am designing some benches that will go around the primary big-ass installation and I need to better understand how much bench to build.

So... how much space does your ass need given the following constraints:

• 1) The benches will have a vertical back extending 16 inches above the seat which is 20-24 inches above the ground (no incline on the back because... fuck calculus and trig.)
  
  2) You will most likely be exhausted but, will still need to be active within an hour or four (think time enough for a spliff and some heady randomization.)
  
  3) You may be highly intoxicated on a variety of substances, people, concepts and the overwhelming lack of silk in your wardrobe.
  
  4) You may, while seated and relaxing, have a existential epiphany about something incredibly interesting that you are unable to explain to the stranger you are sitting next to (this stranger should, of course, also be really comfortable.)
  
  5) You may hook up with the stranger mentioned above without leaving the bench.
  
  6)You are in awe of the big-ass art before you and need to take a moment, or several moments, to start designing your first big-ass art installation thus erasing your free time for the next 12 months or so (you totally don't know you are going to spend so much time on it but, it will happen and you will feel like a minor diety in an unknown universe once it is done.)

My original designs have the bench seat at 14.5 inches in depth. This does not seem adequate but 24 inches seemed way too deep (Insert design constraints here... we are building an ass-load of benches and benches be expensive to build and transport.)

So, figure it is day 3 of a 5+ day festival and you find yourself parking your ass on the perfectly sized bench to fade out on for a bit and somehow you have the wherewithall to measure the depth of the seat on that bench.

WTF is that measurement?

[ehcsztein]

Eventual design will be something very similar to the image below.

Figure there will be 12-24 of these around a much larger installation that we are building.

Each of these will be 12'-15' in length.

[cloaked_up]

ugly lol

[thekuku]

Ask fellow students or teachers, you could also try asking on 4Chan's /b or on a forum for bench designers.

[ehcsztein]

Ask fellow students or teachers, you could also try asking on 4Chan's /b or on a forum for bench designers.

I am too damn old to ask fellow students.

I figure this forum would seriously be an adequate source for faded on a bench at a festival opinions.

[Pedro Sánchez]

You are only gonna get some guy called Nic Hamilton being non constructive in threads like this i'm afraid.

[lovelydivot]

Here's my - obvious suggestion -

If people are not going to be resting their back
as you have suggested by rejecting the "trig"

Why do you even need it?

-problem solved.


...and without a bunch of tiny obstructing psuedo walls.

[lovelydivot]

I would make an even futher suggestion...

eliminate all the bent wood....
thicken the gauge of the seat - square the ends

and use flatpanels periodically for support.

or upsidedown square u shaped poling...
- since you saved a shitload of money by eliminating the bentwood.

[lovelydivot]

I think what I just did to your bench was this...Nelson

-only you could keep it curvy if you want...

...tweak the curves to get fatter and skinnier....width wise

you could make the u squares out of concrete - easy...
round hole - top center...