The Rough One

Austrian architect and designer Martin Mostböck developed in Graz a prototype for a smart urban furniture made of wood, together with a local timber construction company.

As part of the Designmonat Graz 2017, five Austrian designers were invited to develop prototypes for a smart urban furniture made of wood, together with five local timber construction companies. Martin Mostböck designed a basic dwelling, an archaic habitation from these geometric components: a simple cone with a canopy that rises at a point orthogonal to the ground.

Martin Mostböck, The Rough One, Graz, 2017

The object is a thought-provoking resting place in the accelerated world of mobile telephony and telephone mobility, a visually tangible hub in an unpredictable infoscape: a metaphor for privacy in public space. It is an ephemeral intervention in urban space, temporary made of construction-timber and plywood, roughly built and quickly erected.

Martin Mostböck, The Rough One, Graz, 2017
Martin Mostböck, The Rough One, Graz, 2017
Martin Mostböck, The Rough One, plan
Martin Mostböck, The Rough One, section


The Rough One, Graz
Program: temporary pavilion
Architect: Martin Mostböck
Completion: 2017