Metric - Ganic Sculptural Bench

Metric - Ganic Sculptural Bench
by Webber (Ping-Chun) Chen

• Awarded April 15, 2014
• CLIENT: 'Make It' Exhibition, Victoria University, New Zealand
• 11.695

With Metric-Ganic Chen explores the notion of how civilization imprints knowledge and how humans have shaped the earth to create culture and history - through this lens, the sculptural bench is explored via the study of natural and mathematical patterns. Differentiating between inorganic and organic forms, the origami appearance of the timber is a representation of human knowledge based on mathematical calculations, which contrasts with the natural grain of the white oak representing the forest and earth.