1 STUDIO 431 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, PA Landscape Forms Element: Custom Benches Design Partner: Ground Reconsidered “Intricate” and “challenging” are two words used to describe the creation of the custom benches dotting the public area of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Roberts Center for Pediatric Research Schuylkill Avenue campus. The benches were conceptualized by Cooper Robertson & Partners, the project’s master planner, and brought to life through a collaboration between landscape architecture firm Ground Reconsidered and Landscape Forms’ Studio 431. To give a sense of the ipe benches’ complexity, here are |some numbers: 10,000 individual boards–4,000 of which were unique boards each requiring their own CNC program– w

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