GROUND

Safer and multi-sensory focused environment

GROUND is a material-led furniture collection that explores how design can create safer, less stimulating experiences at home. The project began from my personal experience living with elderly family members with vision loss, which led me to question why furniture is still so often designed to be perceived and react mainly through sight.

Sensory connections in daily rituals through home objects

The collection explores a multi-sensory bond between people and objects in interior spaces. GROUND uses soft interactions with touch and scent to make them recognisable through daily rituals. The flexibility of the cork composite also brings in irregular tactile surfaces and a near-body-temperature feel. Its structure absorbs noise and allows free movement, while the consistent texture makes it identifiable at first touch.

Honest and consistent material logic

GROUND also reflects a more honest material logic. Rather than hiding structure beneath upholstery, the sculpted and cast material forms both the surface and the structure of each piece. The work brings sensory qualities associated with natural environments into the domestic space, presenting furniture as a quiet material presence rather than just a problem-solving object.