Urban outdoor furniture
Urban outdoor furniture - one of the elements of small architectural forms used in addition to gardening to improve the urban environment. Under the «small architectural forms» understand the construction, equipment, or art and decorative elements of the external improvements that complement the main building of settlements. All of us, walking on the beloved city (and I hope that the city where live, you love), faced with street furniture: benches, benches, city sofas (one of the varieties of benches, is back). Think of it as, this outdoor furniture, do you like? Most often it is just steel construction, complemented by wooden elements. But let’s think, what requirements should apply to the urban furniture, to us you like, serve the long, happy eyes and over the years do not lose their appearance? Further, even many producers are not interested, it is an impression when you look at the city’s street furniture in many cities.
And so let us explain the criteria in order:
1. Economy. Unfortunately, this basic requirement, which must adhere to the mayor in the tender for landscaping. But cheap does not mean quality, and most importantly, beautiful and durable furniture in this town must still comply with certain requirements.
2. Aesthetics of street furniture. Explain. Furniture should be taken into account architectural, compositional and artistic characteristics of the urban environment of space. Agree, as far as possible in Peterhof to ordinary steel benches, a pond where the pond in cities. It will be wall-eyed. Therefore, this requirement must be taken into account when choosing the urban furniture, and, moreover, this type of street furniture should be laid in the project of a neighborhood to make it harmonize with the urban environment. Requirement, see, an important, but perhaps there are more. 
3. Safety of street furniture. Even at the stage of development should be provided for measures to reduce travmoopasnosti urban furniture. What should be taken into account when designing, say, children’s play equipment? For example, the height of buildings that would fall under his child received a minimum of damage, and even better without them. Still need to take into account the peculiarities of the form of equipment - a maximum of rounded forms, the absence of sharp corners. Also, compliance with sanitary standards, surface texture and so on. Requirements of this nature a lot, and they must all be taken into account. All this applies not only to children’s play equipment, but also the urban street furniture.
4. The functionality of the urban furniture. Beforehand it is necessary to determine the size, pick up materials, to develop some constructive solutions, taking into account the purpose and possible features of the use of street furniture. For example, park furniture. This furniture must be designed for the mass folk festivals, and our people tend to refer disparagingly to the city property. It follows that park furniture should be as protected from vandals, so that it is not broke, and themselves, God forbid, do not tear.
5. Manufacturability of street furniture. That is, should be taken into account particularly of materials and manufacturing process technology, which often affects the price of the product.
6. Another could be called to the requirements for street furniture of its universality. In a city of furniture should be a minimum of detail to be able to collect is not even prepared people. This is not the plane and not a car at the end of it all.
Unfortunately, in today’s market of urban street furniture, only a small number of producers take into account these requirements in the manufacture of products. A cursory inspection of the samples, you will notice that the whole city is divided into outdoor furniture steel, timber, concrete, stone, and the so-called mixed. In this furniture with all materials used in the above-mentioned types of urban furniture. In our subjective opinion, although we agree with many of the designers and technologists engaged in the development of street furniture, the latter type of furniture allows you to fully take into account all the above listed requirements for the urban street furniture. Unfortunately, at the price it will always yield to steel and wood, and, therefore, that the furniture in our streets will not be enough, as we with you will not be able to reach the rulers and zakonotvortsev, enabling them to understand the price of urban furniture that is not the main. The main thing is that it fulfills all the requirements listed above.
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