GROUP NO.

8
Pedestrianisation
&
Urban Furniture

AKSHIT ROHILLA . 15001006005

ARCHIT JAIN . 15001006010
HIMANSHU DUA . 15001006024
NEHA JHANGRA . 15001006039
Pedestrianisation
PEDESTRIAN ZONE

• Pedestrian zones are areas of a city reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all
automobile traffic may be prohibited. Converting a street or an area to pedestrian-only use is
called pedestrianisation.
• Pedestrianisation usually aims to provide better accessibility and mobility for pedestrians, to
enhance the volume of shopping and other business activity in the area or to improve the
attractiveness of the local environment in terms of aesthetics, air pollution, noise and
accidents involving pedestrians.
PHYSICAL FEATURES
• The urban design literature points to numerous perceptual qualities that may affect the walking
experience.
• Physical features influence the quality of the walking environment both directly and indirectly
through the perceptions and sensitivities of individuals.

TREES AS A HINDRANCE IN PEDESTRI

PHYSICAL FEATURES
• Urban design qualities are different from such qualities as sense of comfort, sense of safety, and level
of interest that reflect how individuals react to a place—how they assess the conditions there, given
their own attitudes and preferences.
• Perceptions may produce different reactions in different people. They can be assessed with a
degree of objectivity by outside observers; individual reactions cannot.

SENSE OF COMFORT

SENSE OF SAFETY

LEVEL OFSAFETY
PEDESTRIAN SCALE & FRIENDLY DESIGN
An area or neighborhood designed to encourage and support pedestrian traffic.
• Pedestrian: A person traveling on foot; a walker
• Friendly: 1. favorably disposed; inclined to approve, help, or support 2. easy to understand or
use.
• The destinations in the pedestrian friendly area must be within walking distance from residences or
vehicular collection points. Essentially, the pedestrian must be able to arrive in the area, and be on
foot.

• The combination of routes and destinations throughout the area must be safe and
supportive(friendly) to pedestrians. The pedestrian must feel comfortable walking from one place
to the next and then ultimately back to where they entered the area.
• The area should be attractive to pedestrians. Once they have arrived and are presented with
the functional requirements of safe and manageably walkable routes, the finishing touches are
needed to encourage the pedestrian to actually walk.
CIRCULATION
• The path of movement conceived as the perceptual thread that links the spaces of a building, or
any series of interior or exterior spaces together.
• Pedestrians can tolerate abrupt changes in direction, but require a greater volume of space
relative to their bodily.

VEHICULAR PARKING MERGED

WITH PEDESTRIAN PATH
MATERIALITY

• Materiality gives a pedestrian tactile experience of the building's facade and streetscape.
• Material differentiation can also be introduced through signage, landscaping, lamp posts,
fencing, pavers, benches, planters, sculpture, cafe tables, chairs, art work, and other similar items.
These external elements add to the ground floor design of a building allowing the pedestrian to
relate to the building through its environment.
 URBAN
FURNITURE
WHAT IS URBAN FURNITURE ?

• Urban furniture or Street furniture is a

collective term for objects and pieces of
equipment installed along streets and roads
for various purposes.
• Street Furniture is an essential part of the
urban fabric.
• If iconic buildings can be called show
stealers, then it is its everyday items such as
Bus shelters, bollards and benches that are
its quieter cast members in the background.
• Take them away, however, and people
immediately notice that something is missing.
• Street furniture provides the punctuation for
open spaces. Both functional and attractive,
it is a driver of pedestrian activity: bollards act
as safety elements; benches create rest stops;
bus stops provide a form of shelter.
• It adds permanence to a city intrinsically
helping to create a sense of place.
HISTORY OF STREET FURNITURE
Street Furniture plays a role in peoples lives that is
not often realised, and as such is overlooked. Street
Furniture surrounds people in many ways in many
arenas - lighting our way at night, directing us in
traffic, giving us places to rest and sit and keeping
us safe as pedestrians.

Street furniture provides us with interesting

information and valid insights into some of the ways
that local authorities, the central government,
designers, planners, architects or even occasionally
charitable associations intervened in the
environment to make it more pleasant or
convenient for city residents.

It is widely understood that the Romans introduced

the concept of street furniture, using
milestones and way markers on their ubiquitous
roads. Beyond this street furniture and its growth
has been linked to the developments in transport
alongside an increasing population and urbanisation.
ELEMENTS OF URBAN FURNITURE
1. TRANSIT SHELTERS - BUS STOP SHELTERS AND TAXI STOP SHELTERS
It is the most important element of the street
furniture A Transit shelter is an enclosed
waiting area located near a bus station or stop
or a taxi stand that can feature great range in
design, and functions. The simplest shelter might
merely feature a back wall and two sidewalls with
a bench or two on which to sit while you wait.
Others are much larger, may be built out of vari-
ous materials, and may have multiple benches.

2. STREET BENCHES 3. LITTER BINS

Seating for the outdoor made As the name suggests,
with rugged materials like steel, its for collection of
wood, iron, etc. Designed to not litter. Help to keep the
allow water to puddle on top of streets clean and tidy.
the benches at rainy season. Segregated waste bins
Seats are generally at a are provided to
comfortable height from the facilitate better
ground suitable for all age litter collection with
groups. segregated waste bins.
4. BOLLARDS
Bollards are posts, short poles, or pillars
with the purpose of preventing the
movement of vehicles onto sidewalks or
grass. They can also protect buildings and
other site features. Basically a safety
feature for demarcation between
pedestrians and motor vehicles or
selective passage from one area to
another.
5. STREET LAMPS 7. TRAFFIC LIGHTS/ SIGNALS
Streetlamps are designed to
Traffic lights or traffic
illuminate the surrounding area at
signals usually include
night, serving not only as a
three colours: green
deterrent to criminals but more
indicates vehicles should
importantly to allow people to see
proceed through an
where they're going. The colour
intersection; amber
of streetlamp bulbs differ, but are
indicates vehicles should
generally white or yellow.
prepare to stop; and red
6. INFORMATION PILLARS / CITY MAP/ ADVERTISING indicates vehicles should
PANELS not enter the
Used to display detailed area maps with important intersection. They are
buildings,landmarks and roads and provide information like generally mounted on
history of the area, facts, utilities, emergency, important poles or gantries or
telephone numbers,etc. Panels used to display large printed hung from wires.
sheets in different formats.
8. TELEPHONE BOOTHS Phone boxes or telephone
booths are prominent in most cities.
While they range drastically in the 11. VENDING MACHINES /
amount of cover they offer users (e.g. NEWSPAPER READING
BOOTHS
many only cover the phone itself
A vending machine
while others provide full booths) they
provides snacks,
are typically easy to spot. The
beverages, and other
widespread use of mobile
products to consumers
phones has resulted in a decrease in
without a cashier. Items
their numbers.
sold via these machines
9. DIRECTIONAL SIGNAGE / STREET NAMEPLATES vary by country and
region.
Identification boards that give Also, Flat panels with
directions to different areas open able glass fronts that
and provide information about display daily newspapers
street names and area names. for the common man to
read are also a part of it.

10. FIRE HYDRANT 12. PUBLIC LAVATORIES

Public lavatories offer
A fire hydrant, also
restroom facilities,
called fireplug, is a
either for free or for a
connection point by
fee. They are basically
which fire-fighters can
public washrooms.
tap into a water supply.
Separate enclosures
It is a component
for Men and Women.
of active fire protection.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE
AND HOW SHOULD
IT BE DESIGNED ?
 The Classic

Street furniture has many

forms and functions. The
original purpose of street
furniture was to sit and rest,
maybe wait for something
to happen such as the bus
to arrive. The only
functionality it offered is
sitting. This bench here is
an example of the simplest
form of street furniture,
although its design is
beautiful and sleek and the
bench is perfectly
integrated into the
landscape.
However, the main
characteristic of any street
furniture is that it is placed
outside.
 Relax

Another important aspect of

the majority of street
furniture pieces is to offer
relaxation. It takes then the
form of a lounge chair or
reclining chair. It offers head
support, it is reclined,
sometimes the feet are
elevated in an comfortable
position.
 Interaction

Some pieces of street

furniture encourage through
their form interaction
between people. For
example, they place people
face to face to encourage
conversations. Other
examples include a table so
that people can sit together
and eat or work.
 Modular

A modular approach to the

Sit+Store solution is
encouraged in the brief.
Researching modular street
furniture provides me with
valuable information. A
modular street furniture
piece almost always
encourages interaction as
the elements can be moved
and grouped together. In
order to be moved, it has to
be light and flexible.
 Multifunctional

A street furniture that allows

sitting and storing is a
multifunctional furniture
piece. For example such as
a bench that offers charging
options, a bench that is also
a bike rack.
 Common Materials

A materials for street

furniture are durable and
hard-wearing. They need to
be water-resistant and
prone to sun exposure. The
most common materials for
street furniture are:

• Wood
• Concrete
• Steel
• Stone
• Plastics

These materials need to be

considered when designing
furniture for outdoors.
 Innovative

Lastly, is an example of
street furniture that I find
innovative and beautiful.
The example below shows
a clever fold over chair that
then can be used as a table
as well as for sitting
purpose.
THANKYOU

AKSHIT ROHILLA . 15001006005

ARCHIT JAIN . 15001006010
HIMANSHU DUA . 15001006024
NEHA JHANGRA . 15001006039