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illumination after dark automatically activates a brighter light as a person approaches the bollard meaning it is sure to alert even the most absent-minded of mobile users.
While solar bollards provide a visual warning for pedestrians at night, this could translate to other items of street furniture that alert pedestrians during the day.
Positive distractions
The solispost bollard emits a brighter light as pedestrians approach
It is no wonder that residents of towns and cities faced with the same concrete dominated streetscape choose to look at their screens. The challenge for designers is how can we adapt the landscape and make it engaging so that people take notice? For example, if road signs and illuminating bollards fail to grab the public’s attention, an art wall is sure to do the trick. As councils face a constant battle with graffiti, products such as Graphic Concrete – a technology producing prefabricated concrete surfaces – can provide a non-invasive piece of artwork that all residents can appreciate. The patented technology allows for
almost any pattern or design to be used on the membrane and then embossed onto a concrete facade of any size, meaning the potential to create a striking piece of artwork that enhances any public building or area is limitless.
Designed to make a huge visual impact, art walls could help lift the appearance of the environment and encourage pedestrians to appreciate the urban landscape.
A changing streetscape
We anticipate that the solution to the dangers, which are especially acute in the age of Pokémon Go, will most likely be solved by technology that works in two ways. First, through app updates and also through the development of more high-tech street furniture that communicates with apps and smartphones. Progress is inevitable, so it will be interesting to see how technology solves the problems it has caused for our relationship with the urban environment.
Jonathan Goss is managing director of Townscape Products
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