Estudios para sentar(se) 2023 - Yemail Arquitectura

Project Details

Studies for sit(ting) 2023

DESCRIPTION

Estudios para sentarse (Studies for sitting) brings together a series of seats constructed from wood scraps, blocks, leftover pieces, and, in some cases, fragments of cardboard. Rather than designing a chair as a self-contained object, the project explores various ways of supporting the body: sitting, leaning, waiting, resting, or steadying oneself for a moment. Each piece functions as a small, everyday action transformed into a structure.

The pieces start from common references: rural benches, informal supports, improvised furniture, and domestic solutions crafted from whatever is at hand. From this economy of means emerges a fragile, almost skeletal architecture, in which every element serves a precise function. The seats reveal their own structural logic: simple cuts, visible joinery, minimal supports, and a direct relationship between weight, balance, posture, and available material.

The project operates between a functional object and an installation. Although each seat can be used, its significance lies not merely in comfort, but in how it compels an awareness of the body, the material, and the act of sitting. They are small architectures made from scraps: precarious, intuitive, and sculptural structures that transform wood, blocks, and cardboard into devices that draw attention to everyday life.

DETAILS

Use

Furniture installation

Dimensions

Variable

Location

Bogotá D. C. – Colombia

Meters above sea level

2625 m

Year

2022 – 2023

Design

Antonio Yemail

Photography

Yemail Architecture

Categories: Furniture, Production