This project seeks to recycle a non-legal urban element, in this case an advertising post located in the public space.
We plan a new use for it, a new urban furniture.
Close to this post, is located one of the most attractive and popular cafes in the neighborhood: Mentiritas Blancas, which brings activity to the Gaspar Hernández Street.
They have become a meeting point for the community and for this reason we consider that this project could be really positive for both people the visit MB and for people that live here a need a place to sit. It's important to mention that there is no place to sit on this street.
The main idea is to rethink this element and turn it into a new urban furniture.
We will use metal tubes to create 3 extensions, inspired on tree branches. One for sitting, one for standing -as a coffee bar- and another for lean on.
It's a subtle intervention in the existing urban landscape.
To act on public space, you does not necessarily to work on large-scale interventions, with small actions -urban acupuncture- positive changes can be initiated within our neighborhoods.
This urban element starts from an illegality, we give it a new meaning, a new use for the people within the public space.
