Intention: to posit foreign structure in contested park area of idle immigrants, joggers, drug users and sellers, enabling normally private behaviour (sleeping, lounging) in public space; disturbing the spatial status quo and enabling new encounters and spatial negotiations.

Action: creation of solarium structure (with bed, large lounge chair, storage spaces, ashtray) with two movable wall sections attached to enable reconfigurations of space, picnic table, and fixed walls to designate the area as a complex and provide privacy.

profile of bench

flyers posted inside structure

picnic bench

structure closed with hinged doors by
initial user

Reaction: immediate usage for overnight sleeping, movement of the hinged walls to close the structure (space claimed by an individual), usage by drug users and dealers who are eventually displaced by a permanent encampment by homeless individuals, police investigation and complaint.

users

paraphenalia left by users