Bent laminated oak benches in the main lobby.
The architect wanted to achieve an oak wood monolith effect, so that the wood fibres run with the bending curvature.
Parameters:
The project consists of approximately 200 linear metres of bent benches and backrests. The benches smoothly pass from concave to convex shapes, almost without any straight sections. 6 mm thick, 50 mm wide and 10 m long lamellae were used for the seating. Over 80 such lamellae were laminated on one press loading, in order to achieve a seating width of 50 cm. The backrests did not require the lamination of such a large lamellae number. However, the ones used were as wide as 220 mm with a 6 mm thickness.
In order to achieve the spectacular “ribbon” effect, the greatest bending radius was below 2 m, while the smallest just below 1 m.
