REPORT

ON

STREET HARDWARE AND STREET FURNITURE

SUBMITTED BY:
DEEPTI CHAUHAN
I SEM – I YEAR
M.LANDSCAPE

GANGA INSTITUTE OF ARCH AND TOWN

PLANNING
KABLANA, H.R., INDIA
Street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed on streets and
roads for various purposes, including traffic barrier,, bollards, benches, post boxes, phone
boxes, streetlamps, street lighting, traffic lights, traffic signs, bus stops, grit bins, tram stops,
taxi stands, public lavatories, fountains and memorials, and waste receptacles. An important
consideration in the design of street furniture is how it affects road safety.
•STREET NAME AND SIGNAGE identify streets for the unfamiliar, especially
benefiting visitors, postal workers and the emergency services. They may also indicate
the district in which a street lies.
•Signage is any kind of visual graphics created to display information to a particular
audience.
•This is typically manifested in the form of way finding information in places such as
streets or outside of buildings.
 BOLLARDS
 Bollards are low profile sturdy posts embedded in
the floor to protect some other fragile structures or
to exclude vehicles from pedestrian precincts or to
prohibit vehicles within given area, makes
pedestrians feel less vulnerable to the passage of
traffic in close quarters
 The message they convey here is not of `STAY
OUT' but that of `COME IN ON YOUR FEET'.
 Where vehicular traffic is to be restricted for a few
hours only, light weight temporary bollards are also
used.
 Bollards unlike railings do not form visually
continuous horizontal barriers
Components: various styles and finishes according to the requirment of the context

Steel bollards Composite bollards Stainless steel

Cast iron bollards bollards

Folding bollards

Recycled plastic bollards

Anti ram-raid protection

Illuminated bollards
BENCHES
Benches, in the cityscape, are a focus of activity and welcome
relief for those who wish to sit and relax or simply pass their time
between various activities.
Stone benches and shelters
SEATING
Seating should be sited so as to:
• Be sheltered from wind
• Take advantage of site views
• Be situated back of circulation paths
• Provide a variety of options for
pedestrians such as…sunlight, shade,
multitude, activity, formality, informality
etc.

They include benches, stoops, ledges, seat

walls, steps etc.
 SHELTER
• Shelters are often major elements of a site. They can
be used as a visual reference to the historical or
cultural character of a place. The choice of an
appropriate design idiom should reflect an
understanding of the social and cultural forces that
have given the place its unique identity.

• Because shelters often serve as focal points of a site

they should be:
1. Readily visible
2. Easily accessible
3. Sited to take advantage of views
4. Sited adjacent to major pedestrian routes
 TYPES OF SHELTERS
• Tensile Fabric Structures
• Pergolas
• Trellis
• Canopies
• Gazebos
Tensile Fabric Structures

• Tensile fabric structures are an environmentally sensitive medium and

an inexpensive way to create an organic form.
• The biggest performance advantage is its strength to weight ratio, which
saves on materials
• Being lightweight and flexible; fabric interacts better with natural forces
than a rigid material,its daytime translucency and night-time luminosity
gives a magical feeling of being outdoors, combined with the security
and comfort..
 Pergolas
• A pergola is a garden feature forming a
shaded walk or passageway of pillars
that support cross-beams and a sturdy
open lattice, upon which woody vines
are trained.
• As a type of gazebo, it may also be an
extension of a building, or serve as
protection for an open terrace or a link
between pavilions.
• Materials can be differs according to the
design and the need.
Trellis
• An open framework, latticework, or design of wood or steel
in a vertical wall or horizontal overhead.
•Vegetation is supported either vertically or horizontally.
 Canopies
• A covered shelter for protection from sun, rain, snow, tree-
litter, etc., that generally projects over a sidewalk, driveway,
entry, window or similar area.
• It may be wholly supported by columns, poles, or braces
extending from the ground.
• Can be of different materials and shapes.

Gazebos
•A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes
octagonal, in parks, gardens, and spacious
public areas.
•Gazebos are freestanding or attached to a
garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides.
•They provide shade, shelter, ornamental
features in a landscape, and a place to rest.
•Some gazebos in public parks are large enough
to serve as bandstands or rain shelters.
Water Features
• Swimming Pools
• Spouts
• Fountains
• Artificial Waterfall

Swimming Pools
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply
a pool, is a container filled with water intended for
swimming or water-based recreation
 Spouts
• Water Feature in which water is forced to flow
through small pipes from an elevation.

Fountains
A fountain (from the Latin "fons"
or "fontis", a source or spring) is
a piece of architecture which
pours water into a basin or jets
it into the air either to supply
drinking water or for decorative
or dramatic effect.

Types of fountains
i. Musical Fountains
ii. Splash fountains
iii. Drinking fountains
 LIGHTING
• The height of light standards
is the single factor that most
directly determines the
quality of the light and the
consequent ambience of the
site.
• Exterior lighting can be
generally categorised as:
1. Decorative lighting
2. Vehicular use lighting
3. General site lighting
4. Pedestrian use lighting
5. Feature lighting
 Sculptures
• Sculpture is three-dimensional
artwork
• created by shaping or combining
different materials.
• Materials may be worked by removal
such as carving; or they may be
assembled such as by welding.
• Different materials like
stone,wood,steel,marbel etc. can be
used

Stone sculptures
Stone Planters:
FENCES, SCREENS & WALLS
Fences, screens & walls are used for
a variety of reasons:

• Visual privacy
• Physical inclusion
• Control of people & animals
• Modification of environmental factors like
noise, wind, sunlight etc.
• Purely aesthetic reasons
Tree guards
Metal
Metals are nowadays extensively
used in landscape architecture.
Metals like a aluminium chrome steel
wrought iron brass bronze etc are
being used to create different types of
street furniture.
Metals are used to create benches,
railings, fences, bollards, lighting
poles dust bins, pergolas, trellises,
bicycle parking, bridges, sculptures,
fountains etc
sculptures
 POSTS AND RAILINGS

• These railings are used varilably in ares like staircases ,streets,parking lots etc.
• These elements are aesthetic as well as functional,different patterns and shapes may
change the whole feel of the component also ,the placment or arrangment changes the
function ,size ,materials used.
LITTER BINS
To be kept in mind –the placement ,the material used for the type of waste used ,the design
should be such that it is comfortable in use (for eg. Easy to open lid),number of bins placed
(eg. More litter bins are required in a small street wid restaurants and eatouts,lesser required
on a highway)
Service Areas, Trash Enclosures, Dumpsters, and Mechanical Equipment shall be
visually screened

GRIT BINS
A grit bin or salt bin is an item of street furniture, commonly found in countries where
freezing temperatures and snowfall occur, which holds a mixture of salt and grit which is
spread over roads if they have snow or ice on them.