Outdoor furniture supplier mmcité has provided Sinus benches to Grande Hotel Senac, a hydro-mineral resort in Brasil’s São Paulo countryside that has reorganised its leisure areas in order to attract a younger audience.

Designed by native architects Adriana Levisky and Estratégia Urbana, the property features a ground floor building inside the hotel’s woods, which, with its staircases and ramps, connects new areas to the old ones. Here, furniture becomes more than an invitation to sit but rather adds an extra layer to the garden landscape.

The integration of spaces is made by wooden decks, which also serve for entertaining and interactive activities. Thinking about the purpose of the building, the environments were designed to be modular and flexible according to activity type and age group, which can be reduced, expanded or even integrated into the external area with the use of glass partitions. Levisky selected mmcité’s outdoor Sinus benches as she liked how they “attend with grace, aesthetic sophistication, diversity and comfort to all the prerequisites”.

Expanding the original concept of tree grilles, Sinus was created from a number of separate benches with an unmistakable expression. In the sinus stool, strong steel plates are easily bent on a slightly trapezoidal profile with an almost invisible rib rendering a totally solid shape. The dot perforation is a throwback to the genuine aesthetics of the 1960s. The combination of a unique seat pattern with plastic button pads thermally isolates the cold metal while providing the ultimate sitting comfort. A subtle yet important design detail is the option to have the stool optically grow right out of the pavement. The galvanised steel sheet structures are also available cured with powder coating or left without a surface finish. Sustainable construction, materials chosen to withstand extreme weather, suitable for heavy traffic, zero waste manufacturing.

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