Today I became an outdoor furniture designer. A lot of the benches I see at parks and transit stations are terribly uncomfortable, don’t have a back, look hideous, are made of expensive material, or seat very few people. So I decided to solve all of those problems today.

Pardon the immitation 3D look, I’m not a 3D artist so I had to make this Photoshop manually.

The bench design solves a few problems and has advantages as well as disadvantages. It’s not perfect but…

Advantages:

• Seats visitors on both sides.
• Has a back.
• Might be cheaper to produce because it’s just poured concrete
• Doesn’t rust like metal benches.
• Is more durable than plastic or wooden benches.

Disadvantages:

• Must be anchored into the ground which is more expensive than bolting on metal benches.
• Might be more expensive to transport because of its heavy weight.
• Doesn’t dry quickly after a rain like a lot of metal benches do.
• Susceptible to graffiti.
• Susceptible to fungi, moss growth, and dirt accumulation.

Paint sealing the benches with concrete paint will solve the fungi and some of the dirt problem.

So what do you think?