LFA and Network Rail have announced the design teams shortlisted to develop a new take on station seating, to brighten the experience of Londoners, commuters and visitors in some of London’s largest train stations, in time for the Festival’s return to the capital in June 2020.
Architecture and design students, recent graduates and emerging practitioners were invited to consider engaging and imaginative seating solutions that can add value. The competition aims to maximise the possibilities of the under-used public space within stations. With the opportunity to completely transform how passengers sit and wait for their trains, the competition seeks to inform a prototype for how a future of station seating might look, with the potential for winning ideas to be replicated across stations by Network Rail in the future. Spatial-esk creates transformative spaces through engagement, sustainability and knowledge. They have teamed up with designer Liam Hopkins (Lazerian) to form an exciting collaboration. Lazerian is a contemporary creative studio that manipulates established design concepts, digital technology and functional materials to create radical solutions.
