1.06.2011

mocking up the cabin booth seating

Here I am making a layout of the seat profile that I will build inside the cabin. I spent countless hours studying human factor design books in order to insure that when I want to kick back and have some cookies and milk, I'll be nice and comfortable.

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Posted by Unknown at 1/06/2011  

2 comments:

She:Kon said...

Will you share the dimensions when you're finished? It'd save me a few brain cells I'm sure.

Thnx

Rick

7.1.11  
grinell smith said...

yep, grinell here, allen's brother. we went out all over town measuring chairs and booths and so forth, and we read everything online we could find about chair measurement, and as far as we could tell, the critical dimensions turn out to be amazingly stable over a large range of furniture. the angle between the back and the seat is usually around 103 degrees - certainly no more than 105 or 106 and not less than 100. and we also came across a new word: popliteal. it's the anatomical location at the back of the knee. so with chair design, there's popliteal height and popliteal length. we wanted the final popliteal height to be 17 inches. that's how tall the front of the bench is, in other words. we wanted the popliteal length to be about 16 inches. and we wanted a one inch drop from front to back (the seat recline), and wanted the back angle (the back recline)to be 103 degrees.

the frame we built is designed to accommodate 4 inches of foam that will compress to 2 inches. So the frames are 15 inches tall and 18 inches deep. We also planned an undercut at the front of the bench of three inches to allow for tucking your feet underneath you a bit when you're sitting.

also, the table edge needs to be about 16- 18 inches away from the back of the booth, and there needs to be about a foot between the table edge and the front edge of the booth.

Check out pg 107 of "Successful Restaurant Design", by Baraban and Durocher (on google books) for a picture..

7.1.11  

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