Development of Modular Outdoor Furniture Product Using Lightweight Concrete for Public Parks in Surabaya

Abstract

Abstract. The development of public parks into green city facilities in Surabaya has triggered the need of outdoor furniture designs that can resist the tropical wet and dry weather conditions while also having a certain mobility to support flexible park arrangement. However, present furniture designs made of concrete material are generally heavy and immovable. Flexible designs are needed for various activities that can take place at the same time such as sitting and playing, and to support changes in arrangement to keep the green open spaces attractive from time to time. This research develops the idea of a modular outdoor furniture design using cellular lightweight concrete (CLC) as the main material as a result from observing its resistance towards weather change and its relative light weight. It starts with analysis of problems, formulation of design concept, creation of design alternatives, selection of design, calculation of mouldings, adaptation of design to the mouldings and production of a scaled mock-up using CLC. Findings of this research reveal that the modular design along with the CLC material used not only support the flexibility of change in function and arrangement but also make these furniture resistant to the hot and humid weather of Surabaya.

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“…Therefore, more and more scholars have begun to carry out modular design research for urban public facilities. For example, Mulyono, G. et al [21], aiming at the problem of heavy and immovable public facilities made of concrete materials in the park, designed a modular green facility through a series of processes, including an analysis of problems, design iterations, and so on, which can not only resist tropical humidity and hot weather but also has a certain degree of mobility. Mo, H. et al [22] proposed the design concept of a single module division and a matching combination of charging facilities in combination with the modular design concept given the problems of the existing charging facilities, such as rigid modeling and difficulty in finding.…”