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reSEARCH — Rocking Bench
A rocking bench that explores how people sit, move and share space together.
I participated in reSEARCH as an industrial designer, contributing to a collaborative furniture research project centred on a rocking bench. Developed within the multidisciplinary initiative mentored by Bünyamin Aydın, the work brought material experiments, workshop making and collective discussion into the same design process.
The exploration considered the bench in relation to the city, its users, movement and the act of sitting together. Wooden prototypes were used to examine seating proportions, connections and rocking behaviour. These studies informed a metal bench built from a sequence of repeated ribs, with curved end profiles that give the object its rocking movement.
The gallery follows the work from research mapping and prototype tests to metal components, assembly and the finished bench. Related membership-card and carabiner studies are included as part of the wider reSEARCH project.
Role
Industrial Designer
Project Type
Collaborative Furniture Research & Product Design
Collective
reSEARCH
Mentorship
Bünyamin Aydın
Process
Research, wooden prototypes & metal fabrication
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reSEARCH — Rocking Bench
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Rocking Bench — Render
Rendered study of the metal rocking bench and its repeated rib structure.
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The Built Bench
The assembled metal bench photographed outside the workshop.
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Research Map
Early questions connect the bench to the city, its users, setting, form, function and material.
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Form and Component Studies
Small cut-out studies explore form and the arrangement of repeated parts.
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Wooden Prototype — Front
A wooden seating prototype developed during the rocking bench research.
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Wooden Prototype — Rear
A rear view records the prototype's back support, curved sides and temporary connections.
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Prototype Assembly
Workshop documentation of the wooden prototype's parts and connections.
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Testing the Rocking Motion
A full-scale wooden prototype used to explore seating and movement.
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Rocking Prototype — Movement Test
A seated movement test of a wooden prototype, examining the relationship between the curved base, sitting position and rocking motion.
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Wooden Prototype — Layer Study
A close-up of the layered wooden prototype, showing how repeated elements build up its form and surface.
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Metal Component
A close view of a cut metal component used in the bench's construction.
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Assembling the Structure
The team assembles the metal components in the workshop.
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Repeated Ribs
Closely spaced metal ribs define the bench's seating surface.
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reSEARCH Detail
The collective's name appears on a metal surface.
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Membership Card Study
A related multi-purpose metal membership-card study from the wider reSEARCH project.
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Carabiner & Tag — Motion Study
A rotating digital study of a carabiner and tag, developed as part of the wider reSEARCH project.
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The Collective
reSEARCH brings together creative disciplines under the mentorship of Bünyamin Aydın.
- Perspective render of a metal bench formed from closely spaced curved ribs.
- A completed metal rocking bench standing in front of blue workshop doors.
- Research diagram linking a bench to urban conditions, users, movement, function and materials.
- A table covered with small cut-out component models.
- Front view of a wooden rocking-chair prototype held with orange straps.
- Rear view of the wooden rocking prototype with orange straps.
- Close view of a wooden seating prototype being assembled in a workshop.
- A person testing the wooden rocking-seat prototype in the workshop.
- Brushed metal component with a curved outer profile, triangular opening and circular fixing hole.
- Collaborative assembly of the curved metal bench components.
- Gloved hands working on the repeated metal ribs of the bench.
- RESEARCH engraved into a brushed metal surface.
- Dimensioned rendering of a metal reSEARCH membership card with cut-out tool features.
- Black reSEARCH 2022 poster introducing the multidisciplinary collective and its mentor.
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