27/11/2020- Benches...

Walking in Cheltenham town center I never noticed the street furnishing such as benches until we had to think of what sort of furniture we would want to put in for Allan's library entrance. It was now I took notice of the benches. The first picture I have displayed is one I really do not like, the seating area looks unfinished, as if someone was unbothered to put any effort in. They lay down some fake grass, stuck a fountain in the middle with some seating and personally I think they could have made it a more aesthetic space considering it is dead in the center of town. The second seating, the one I have sketched out twice (the first sketch looked rubbish), I really like this seating. I think it looks like a place people would sit, it is effective because you have a planting bed and a support for the bench, it serves more than one purpose. I think this is something I would call sustainable street furnishing and is something I would use as a designer in the future.