This meets risk with kindness. The Building 100 bollard project is located in a public plaza adjacent to RMIT’s Design Hub in central Melbourne. The brief for the B100 project called for a visual and physical deterrent for vehicles entering the building’s plaza space at speed from adjacent streets. Sceptical of the message that bollards transmit about permission in public space, we proposed a land-form instead of a bollard that invites the body and provides prospect to the plaza and the city behind it. The surface of the bollard sits 550mm above the undulating level of the plaza, rising to 850mm at its centre. Underneath its timber surface, a steel frame and concrete mass enable it to work as an impact barrier. No penetrations have been made to the plaza slab, allowing the piece to be removed at any time. The planimetric form of the bollard is a 1:1 copy of the imperfect circle paving motif on the existing plaza. This new, or companion version is freed from the ground plane, floating above the site and creating permission to linger. The project is formed from 434 uniquely CNC machined and curved timber battens and a precise 3D point cloud scan of the as-built plaza surface was made by RMIT Faculty, which allowed the manufacturing of the piece to be done off site and for its installation to be completed in just three days.