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Using our exclusive Indian partnerships with leading manufacturers and design studios on the global street furniture stage, we can provide world class, exclusive collections of integrated public realm furniture to enhance any external works scheme.
The resulting breadth and depth of architectural products offered by Chevron Urban LLP Furniture represents an offer of unparalleled and unmatched quality and diversity within the Indian street furniture industry. Providing exceptional material options including Corten Steel, Ultra High-Performance Concrete, Aluminium, Stainless Steel & sustainable hardwoods, combined with ground breaking and innovative external lighting systems giving you, the specifier, all of the solutions to fulfil your most imaginative of concepts.
We also provide a full and professional consultative service on tailored and bespoke street furniture design, either adapting an existing product in our range or developing street furniture concepts from the start, to fulfil your aspirations.
Our extensive range of street furniture, includes chairs, bench seating, tables, picnic sets, bus & cycle shelters, litter bins, lighting solutions, cycle stands, planters, bollards, tree grilles, wayfinding, and outdoor fitness equipment.
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Street furnishings create the settings for resting, sitting, and eating, and social encounters with others. Such settings may be of great importance to the elderly, those with limited mobility, and adults who have small children; but in addition to their functional aspect, items of urban furniture such as benches and tables in parks and squares can also be socially significant, as they give these sites a comforting and appealing air and draw people in together.
Appropriately selected and placed furniture can draw people to outdoor spaces and add to the pleasure of using these spaces; the main challenge is getting them outdoors, with the aim of making them feel welcome, relaxed, and involved.
The quality of urban spaces is indicated by their character and how well they create a sense of identity, as well as by the quality and placement of their street furniture, as can be seen in various cities: London's red telephone booths and Mumbai' metro entrances, for example, have become iconic and essential to these cities' identities.
In addition to their functional and symbolic roles, items of street furniture may also set standards and expectations of quality for the development of the areas where they are found and can serve as talking points for planning.
The significance of street furniture
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In order to plan the design of street furniture, one must first plan establish and define the type of space under consideration whether it is a park, a street, a plaza, a waterfront, a recreational area, or a mall, for example. The initial defining questions are:
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Who are the potential users of the space?
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For what purpose and at what times will it be used?
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How will it serve users when they arrive there?
Typically, installations where the furnishings have been planned and coordinated as part of a broader design concept is more successful than those where they have been selected piecemeal without taking account of users' needs, or the architectural character or weather conditions at the site.
As regards what furniture should be consistent across various sites and which unique to a particular site, this depends on the situation, but in general there can be some consistent elements, such as signage, or street lighting (for quality of illumination, aesthetics, and to facilitate maintenance by standardizing the types of bulbs used).
In brief, the goal is to create convenient, easily maintained and publicly accessible amenities that do not hinder pedestrians or traffic.
Furniture planning
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The location of the furnishings should be based on their functions, and coherent with the patterns and designs of the hard surfaces at the site. The items of furniture should not give the appearance of being cluttered, so that, for example, signs are attached to a single post or column rather than being distributed in several places; group amenities such as seating areas or telephone booths are set up where they will be used, such as at pedestrian junctions and features like bollards are used minimally.
In addition, the furniture should not be hazardous for pedestrians. If it is used along a walking area it should be aligned to make passage easier, rather than staggered like an obstacle course. Varying the texture of the walking surface at key points can also help the visually impaired to find public amenities more easily.