Sosan, India, Pranavsinh suratia
in honor of
my roots
In honor of my roots
(Research)
Be part of the return
© 2026
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(Concept)
© 2025
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Prologue
Between floor and chair a posture was forgotten. Distance was designed. Elevation became progress. The body was lifted, away from folded knees, from circular gatherings where meals, stories, and silence shared the same level. Yet beneath clean edges and contemporary lines, a quieter posture waits. Low. Grounded. Silhouettes that belong to today but lean toward something older. Almost touching memory. Almost remembering how we once sat closer to the earth closer to each other.
001
Prologue
Between floor and chair a posture was forgotten. Distance was designed. Elevation became progress. The body was lifted, away from folded knees, from circular gatherings where meals, stories, and silence shared the same level. Yet beneath clean edges and contemporary lines, a quieter posture waits. Low. Grounded. Silhouettes that belong to today but lean toward something older. Almost touching memory. Almost remembering how we once sat closer to the earth closer to each other.
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Concept Statement
Between Floor and Chair explores the cultural transformation of sitting, from grounded, collective floor-based traditions to the elevated conditions shaped by modernity. As the chair became a symbol of progress and efficiency, it not only changed the body's position but also altered relationships to time, proximity, and gathering. Rather than advocating a return to floor sitting, the project proposes a middle ground. Through a lowered seating typology, it brings the body closer to the ground while remaining accessible to contemporary lifestyles. The reduced height encourages alternative postures, shared eye levels, and a greater awareness of gravity and presence. Drawing from the spatial logic of traditional Mediterranean seating and translating it through contemporary materials and craftsmanship, the project investigates how design can reconnect us with embodied ways of sitting and foster stronger connections to memory, place, and one another.
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Concept Statement
Between Floor and Chair explores the cultural transformation of sitting, from grounded, collective floor-based traditions to the elevated conditions shaped by modernity. As the chair became a symbol of progress and efficiency, it not only changed the body's position but also altered relationships to time, proximity, and gathering. Rather than advocating a return to floor sitting, the project proposes a middle ground. Through a lowered seating typology, it brings the body closer to the ground while remaining accessible to contemporary lifestyles. The reduced height encourages alternative postures, shared eye levels, and a greater awareness of gravity and presence. Drawing from the spatial logic of traditional Mediterranean seating and translating it through contemporary materials and craftsmanship, the project investigates how design can reconnect us with embodied ways of sitting and foster stronger connections to memory, place, and one another.
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Intervention
Between Floor and Chair proposes a lowered seating typology that brings the body closer to the ground without fully returning to floor sitting. Through its height, proportions, and material expression, it encourages alternative postures, shared eye levels, and a renewed awareness of gravity, proximity, and presence.
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Intervention
Between Floor and Chair proposes a lowered seating typology that brings the body closer to the ground without fully returning to floor sitting. Through its height, proportions, and material expression, it encourages alternative postures, shared eye levels, and a renewed awareness of gravity, proximity, and presence.
The project emerges from three observations about culture, posture, and the ground.
The project emerges from three observations
about culture, posture, and the ground.
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(Research)
© 2026
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(Research)
© 2026
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(Research)
