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Things You Wanted To Know About Street Furniture For Street Design |
| Date Added: November 19, 2009 11:12:09 AM |
| Author: Patrick |
| Category: Shopping |
| The appearance of an inhabited locality depends to a great extent on such architectonical landscape structure as urban furniture equipment. Outdoor constructions like benches, litter bins and seats are put all over the city or town and are used not just for practical functions but for city decoration as well. So what requirements should urban furniture equipment correspond to in order to be reliable in use and nice-looking? 1) The first requirement is economy. The fundamental purpose of street furniture is offering necessary urban facilities for citizenry. City decor takes the second place. That's the reason why nobody wants to pay more for beautiful furniture if they can acquire efficient reliable equipment with less expense. Affordability is an important criterion, but still it is not the only one. 2) Safety is also one of basic requirements of outdoor furniture equipment that should be thoroughly weighed at the stage of projection. It applies in the first turn to the structures for playgrounds for kids. The planners should weigh the height of construction elements, the shape of the structures, sanitary conditions, surface texture and so forth. The same precautions should be taken in relation to other elements of city furniture. 3) Functionality of street furniture equipment should also be taken into account when designing urban facilities. Overall dimensions of the object, its construction and materials used for its production should be considered prior to the start of production. It's important to protect outdoor furniture equipment from the vandalism acts, then it will serve for a long time. 4) And at last we should refer to such requirement as universality. City furniture equipment is a public ownership so it should be produced in such a way that every citizen could use it. So these are the fundamental criteria that should be taken into account by urban furniture producers to supply high-grade and reliable equipment for city decor. The most frequent materials for street furniture equipment are steel, wood, concrete, stone. There is also so-called compound furniture that is made of two or more types of materials. In opinion of specialists, such furniture represents the best variant of urban equipment since it corresponds to all the mentioned criteria. |
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