Who to Sit With

Overview

Public seating has a quiet flaw: strangers hesitate to share a bench, wasting public resources and missing chances for connection. Who to Sit With reimagines the bench as individual seating sections, alternating seats rotated 90 degrees — two seating directions that give both function and privacy, and turn the chair into a conduit for encounters in the urban landscape. The non-linear edges are abstracted from the rooftop ventilation openings of Gaudí's Casa Milà, fusing his architectural ingenuity with the chair's functional space. Printed in concrete with the chair rotated 90 degrees to match robotic craftsmanship, the piece is a metaphorical breath of fresh air for interpersonal connection in the city.