Field Notes: SOMA Bench – Maplewood, New Jersey

Isaac Kremer/ May 16, 2019/ Physical, placemaking, tactical urbanism/ 0 comments

The SOMA Bench is an ingenious way to make a piece of useful furniture out of a single shipping pallet, a 2×6 and some scrap lumber we had on hand. Community leaders went through an iterative design process where they weighed a variety of options, before inventing this unique seating configuration.

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