Platform seating for Sydney Metro Northwest, the line opened in 2019 and connects Sydney’s booming north western suburbs to the CBD. The suite of furniture was designed to reflect the visual conceptual expression of the train-line’s structural and environmental architecture.

The public benches, platform seating and seating for shelters were designed as a family, designed share common and modular elements.

The platform seat is a longer 4-seat version of the bench, with seat and backrest made from the same profiled Australian Spotted Gum and using the same loop armrests. The seat is cantilevered from a frame which anchors into the ground and also displays the name of the station overhead.

A profile support bracket fixed to the frame holds seat and backrest in a floating position, this feature allows the design to be configurable as a single-sided seat or a back-to-back seat depending on its position on the platform.

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Project completed with Vert Design in 2019.