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Ashmita Das

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Seating in bus for the mobility impaired

The open brief was to design a seating for the public bus system. After observing the current bus scenario, we finalized our focus area to ' design a seating for the mobility impaired'. Proposals were also designed to make the bus seating 'wheel chair friendly'.We interacted with  disabled people to understand their distress,  their movement pattern and tested  ideas with them before arriving at the final design.The resultant final product was a seat ( with sufficient restrains and maneuvering area) for the people on crutches. This could be folded to accommodate a wheelchair providing them with proper security and orientation.


Report Content

Briefly specifying the intent and the criteria for design. /also specified is the final product with all its salient concerns and features.

An exploded view of the final design with specification of material, process and dimension

An insight to the factors that shaped the form and function of design. This included observing how the 'mobility impaired people' conduct themselves - physically and mentally. Also, several mock ups vere prepared and tested to understand their ease of usage of the product. Several iterations were made as a result of these studies before arriving at the final design option. Distress was also studied at system level and certain solutions were provided in that sphere as well.

A mapping of the decisions made while in the process of design have been listed. This was of utmost help to track back the path incase the decision made proved to be faulty.

Detail drawings -1

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