Project 3

Rationale For this project, I choose the crown park locates in city Toyota in Waterloo. This park is surrounded with new apartment buildings. It is a modern apartment zone. Most of the residents are young and middle-aged couples and students. Crown Park is one of the great community spaces that include: grass lawns, seating areas, water features. Residents can also walk their dogs there, as Crown Park is an off-leash area at all times. After the field research, it was found that there is many people let their dogs play in this park. One problem is almost of the dogs' owners standing in the middle of the grass area in order to keep an eye on their pets. All the chairs locate at the edges of the park and no pet owner would use these. Since the sense of this place is a good and playful area for dogs and their owners. I think it is better to have one kind of furniture to make this place be more playful and more practical for both pets and owners. I hope this furniture can provide seating place for owners in the middle of the field and create some activities for pets. In my design, by using the combination of benches, the owners can sit down to have a talk with each other at the same time they can observe their pets in any directions. The different levels of benches allow residents can use these as chairs or tables. So it also allows families to have a picnic or other activities require tables. Moreover, owners can use these different levels of benches to treat or play with their pets. For the components, each component has standard dimension and the size of the furniture is changeable because each component could be combined together. On another hand, the benches would be made of wood like the typical style of sfa products. And the support and legs would be steel.