| The outward appearance of a town or a city depends to a great extent on such architectonic landscape element as city furniture equipment. Outdoor structures like benches, litter bins and seats are set throughout the whole town or city and are used not just for practical purposes but for environment decoration as well. So what criteria should outdoor furniture meet in order to be reliable in application and nice-looking?
1) The first requirement is affordability. The principal destination of urban furniture equipment is offering necessary city facilities for citizens. Urban decor takes the second position. That's why nobody prefers to pay more for gratifying to the eye furniture if they can get efficient reliable equipment with fewer expenses. Economy is an important criterion, but nevertheless it's not the only one.
2) Safety is also one of basic requirements of outdoor furniture equipment that should be carefully considered at the designing stage. It applies in the first turn to the equipment for playgrounds for kids. The planners should consider the height of equipment elements, the shape of the equipment, sanitary conditions, surface texture and etc. Similar precautionary measures should be taken in relation to other elements of street furniture.
3) Functionality and life time of urban furniture should also be taken into account when projecting street facilities. Dimensions of the object, its construction and materials used for its production should be weighed before starting production process. It is essential to protect street furniture equipment from the vandalism acts, then it'll serve for a long period of time.
4) And eventually we should refer to such criterion as universality. City furniture is a public property so it should be planned in such a way that everyone could use it.
So these are the basic requirements that should be taken into account by city furniture producers to supply high-grade and reliable equipment for street decoration. The most frequent materials for urban 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 street equipment since it conforms to all the mentioned requirements. |
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