Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards
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Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design. The use of anthropometric data, although no substitute for good design or sound professional judgment should be viewed as one of the many tools required in the design process. This comprehensive overview of anthropometrics consists of three parts.
The first part deals with the theory and application of anthropometrics and includes a special section dealing with physically disabled and elderly people. It provides the designer with the fundamentals of anthropometrics and a basic understanding of how interior design standards are established. The second part contains easy-to-read, illustrated anthropometric tables, which provide the most current data available on human body size, organized by age and percentile groupings. Also included is data relative to the range of joint motion and body sizes of children. The third part contains hundreds of dimensioned drawings, illustrating in plan and section the proper anthropometrically based relationship between user and space. The types of spaces range from residential and commercial to recreational and institutional, and all dimensions include metric conversions.
In the Epilogue, the authors challenge the interior design profession, the building industry, and the furniture manufacturer to seriously explore the problem of adjustability in design. They expose the fallacy of designing to accommodate the so-called average man, who, in fact, does not exist. Using government data, including studies prepared by Dr. Howard Stoudt, Dr. Albert Damon, and Dr. Ross McFarland, formerly of the Harvard School of Public Health, and Jean Roberts of the U.S. Public Health Service, Panero and Zelnik have devised a system of interior design reference standards, easily understood through a series of charts and situation drawings. With Human Dimension and Interior Space, these standards are now accessible to all designers of interior environments.
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Original price was: $39.95.$22.90Current price is: $22.90.
Wei Li –
My manager recommended this book, I have to say it’s soooo useful for an interior designer!
Amazon Mom –
I use this to reference designs for living. It gives examples for different spaces and dimensions and measurements that are acceptable
Pam I Am –
This is such a handy reference to have on hand when you work in any sort of design of spaces. I’m an interior designer and trying to remember how night mirror should be hung for ADA compliance or the width of seating for a booth style table is not something I have committed to memory so this boo has those dimensions and SO much more. Honestly. Every measurement you can think of.
Crizzy –
Product quality, even if it is tagged as used, is superb.
Great saving as compared buying a new one!
Great support also from the seller!
Made my brother really happy!
Kreader –
This book is the bible for use of interior spaces and furniture size requirements. It’s a tool you’ll use for personal and client jobs. Need to know basic bathroom space requirements–it’s here. Need to know office basics- desk height, seating, leg room–it’s all in here and goes on and on–All areas of indoor living are covered–well maybe not the most intimate, oops! But seriously a very good addition to a working library. Try it you’ll love it.
Max –
il testo fondamentale che non può mancare nella biblioteca del designer industriale che voglia progettare veramente “a misura d’uomo”.
Roberta –
This is a great reference book for interior designers. Full of charts and diagrams, it provides just about any dimension you want to know for all kinds of uses of space including: seating, residential, office, mercantile, eating and drinking, health care, leisure and recreational, public and audio-visual, for a wide variety of shapes, sizes and conditions of human beings.
Nazira –
Un super livre qu’il va m’aider dans tout mes projets aussi bien en France en m/cm que à l’étranger inch
Moses Boone –
Are you completely OCD regarding furniture placement and interior design? Have you ever been tormented trying to decide on perfect height to hang a picture? Then this book is your salvation! This bona fide authority on the minutiae interior spaces will tell you exactly how many inches your sofa should be from the coffee table, so you can worry about more important things, like the optimal layout of vegetables in your crisper drawer!
Tran –
Like new condition & fast shipping
黒田 秀雄 –
30年以上前の初本から愛読しています。ボロボロになってきたので新判を購入しました。
KatherineR –
I’ve already used this book several times for different interior design projects. Instead of guessing, or running around your own home with a tape measure, use the measurements and diagrams in this book to be confident in your plans and design schemes. It tells you things like: how bunk beds should be spaced, how much floor space you need for a six seater table, what height a desk should be etc etc. There are also chapters on commercial design like laying out cafes, offices and leisure spaces. I love it’s retro feel too.
Arshiya Fathima –
Great book