Balanus is the seating system with which the designer Simona Sacchi won SUN.LAB 2012 "For a creative outdoor- Nature Inside"
“Balanus takes its name from the natural element that inspires it, the Balanus Amphitrite, a conical-shaped crustacean with a calcareous body, which lives in large groups on surfaces located between the high and low tide levels. The project aims to convey the theme of aggregation present in nature, a preponderant aspect of the modus vivendi in the animal world, just think of the flocks, flocks of birds, schools of fish. The project looks like a "colony of seats", as it is made up of four different workstations of different sizes. Balanus thus captures the aspect of community, of aggregation of the natural element, exploiting it in favor of the human world. The multiple seat was designed for a short stop, as a support point in contract environments to facilitate interaction and socialization between people. This happens thanks to a dynamic use of the complement, determined by an unusual distribution of the stations. The material used is polyethylene, white in color so as to be closer to the Balano, and in different bright colors in reference to the marine world and the target of the places for which it was designed. "
designer: Simona Sacchi
