Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis (Jan 2013)
Seating furniture for public interior (Creating of non-discriminatory interior for people with limitations and seniors)
Abstract
For optimal use and function in the public interior evaluation of seating furniture is important in terms of typology, ergonomics, safety, quality of design, used materials, ecology and other properties. The aim is to adjust the dimensional requirements of the seating furniture for public interior to meet the needs of the current population and reflect the proportional changes in the human body over the last decades.Due to the ageing of population and growing number of people with movement and physiological limitations (which also include the elderly), it will become, in near future, more topical need to modify the rules related to seating furniture that is used in public space. Particularly, in the term of simple and non-discriminatory sitting down and standing up.Proposal to change standards is based on the analysis of used values, the results of the current anthropometrical survey and addition of parameters that were processed by using ergonomic software.In most of the activities related to the seating there is an interaction with the surrounding furniture. Based on this assumption arise the importance of connection between seating furniture and reaching distance of the person sitting on it. Ranges are in the computer simulation divided according to intensity - static, dynamic and comfortable (with the preservation of the natural physiological limitations of joints). The resulting values of simulations can be defined distances suitable for placing objects near seating furniture to ensure the possibility of full utilization.If the principles are kept and they come from the needs of people with limitations, it is certain that the environment will suit all healthy individuals and at the same time it will be non-discriminatory for a greater proportion of people with physical limitations.
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