EOOS
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Furniture For Wolkersdorf
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The Vienna-based design collective EOOS has been designing furniture, products and shop interiors in its current constellation since 1995. For Wolkersdorf they produced a concept for the street furniture consisting of benches, lights, signs, showcases, rubbish bins, bicycle stands and a bus shelter as well as two illuminated gates to mark the entrance and the exit to the town.
Gateways make boundaries visible, marking the entrance and exit, the beginning and the end. They guide, invite, attract attention and provide protection. In Wolkersdorf doors provide a dominant motif in the complete town design, they are at the centre of all activity. The gate or door motif is repeated on a small scale as a frame. These frames define a whole catalogue of utility items. The individual elements of the Wolkersdorf street furniture are: seating surfaces, lighting units, direction signs, showcases, bins, bicycle stands and bus shelters. Certain locations in the public realm have been turned into concentrated places of communication with these elements. For example, benches lit from underneath have a marked day and night side to them. During the daytime the seating is defined by its pure functionality, in the evening it becomes part of a poetic image. One of EOOS' main priorities is to articulate human requirements in the form of objects. Accordingly, the street furniture provides both everyday tools for the people and symbols generating identity for the town.
The second part of the project consists of the positioning of two illuminated gateways running over Bundesstrasse 7. These define the entrances and the exits to the town – and so its outline – with their archaic symbolic power.
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