As part of the Inspiring Views project along the Greensands Way in the Surrey Hills I am constructing a bench seat. The seat will sit on top of Reynards Hill.
The Greensands Way was formed over 65 million years ago and is the result of a great cycle of marine sedimentation that lasted until the end of the Cretatious period. At that time the land lay at the bottom of a shallow sea. Were it not for this process the Greensands Way would not be what is and the landscape would look very different today.
When considering possible designs I have created a dynamic form to lay under a functional sitting platform.
The action of the ocean currents in the past, the layers of sedimentation, contours of the land and the visible forms and cycles of nature have inspired my design. I have been working extensively with composite laminated shapes in my recent work and this geological history, natural landscape and mineral and OS mapping have all helped to inspire the design.