Street wise L chair

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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