Stage Seating

Spring 2012 | LMN Architects x FLS

Friends of Little Saigon approached a group of LMNers about supporting installations for their annual neighborhood festival - Celebrate Little Saigon". They mentioned a need for seating at the festival, but also podiums for author talks, stages for performances, and cafe parklet expansion potential as things they were interested in for year-round use. In response to this prompt, I designed and built a set of materially and spatially efficient, stacking and accumulating platform modules. They are sized to be curb height, easy to move around with 1-2 people, and include a shallow joint detail that secures them to each other when stacked. Two platforms can be CNC’d out of a single piece of 4x8 plywood, and they come together without hardware (though some was added to ensure maximum durability). They are topped with fragments of the pattern we used to paint the street, which pull from plants native to Vietnam that are also found in Seattle today.  

At the festival

In the FLS Space since

Fabrication & Testing