In three years Bahrain will expend all its quarriable limestone. The past four decades of cheap limestone paved the way for mass government housing construction, subsidizing rapid growth, and fueling much of the land reclamation around the country. As the quarry now becomes a clay pit in the center of the island, much of the limestone layer has been ground for fill material, or as part of the armored sea walls which expanded the land of the island nation - fueling speculative development in the early 21st century.

Presaging the end of oil, the proposal for a limestone bench as an artifact of the depletion of a geological stratum was both a way to quickly populate and create public spaces along the coastline, which is largely private, as well as to provide alternatives to the energy intensive aluminum benches or concrete benches - creating a limestone bench that is a series of simple cuts in local stone, transported no more than 20 kilometers from quarry to workshop to destination.