Rationale
The street wise train station chair was made to suit the
needs of summer hill train station. After observing summer hill train station
some things I understood were that there was limited seating undercover, it was
primarily an outdoor area, generally quiet area, there was next to no privacy
in the station itself, a lot of empty not used space, and along with that it
was not a common train station, meaning some trains skip that stop so they can
go to more important busier stations. Because of this I designed a new form of
furniture to suite summer hill’s train station’s needs.
My chair I have designed provides an adequate number of
available seating, by having enough room for 8 people to sit comfortably,
meanwhile it has an acrylic shelter to protect from the sun and rain and give
it the advantage of being undercover.
The chairs are also divided up into their own cubicles, this
allows people to have improved privacy when waiting for their trains, less
people will be able to listen to their personal conversations and along with
that they will feel more comfortable being in their own privatized area. To mix
with this trend I have allowed the dividers to be part acrylic/glass, this
allows it to be private, but still with the acknowledgement of what is going on
around them. The zig zag like nature of these chairs allows multiple of these
chairs to be bought, and connected up to each other to fill up more space and
cater for more seats.
After doing some research on the general demographic of the
summer hill area I noticed it is a rather wealthy, sophisticated and quite
suburb in nature, I also noticed that crime in summer hill is very low compared
to the NSW average. Because of this I chose to make the chair out of oak, being
oiled and varnished. The fact that it’s oak caters for this wealthy and
sophisticated group of people, along with the matureness of the average age in
the suburb. This being said I also had the understanding the crime rates were
low in summer hill so this should be rewarded with acknowledging that this
public furniture does not need to be made out of a cheap plastic in case it
gets vandalized, instead it is made of a rather expensive wood for the suburb
to enjoy.
Matthew Patane
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