Context
The Church of England has set a competition with the intentions to encourage high quality church seat designs that can be retailed at an 'affordable price'.
Increasingly congregations are exploring the opportunity for creating a more flexible, multi-functional space in their church, by replacing existing seating. Some schemes are spoilt by the installation of chairs which fail to compliment or enhance historic interiors sometimes failing to also meet the original objectives of the parish.
Design Brief
Design church seating that combines good design with comfort and practicality, whilst maintaining sympathy with historic interiors. Ideally, designs need to specify UK manufacture as well as sustainably and locally sourced materials'.
Specifications
The design must be:
The design could have:
Another factor to add 'Ideally we should like to see designers specify UK manufacture as well as sustainability and locally sourced materials
The Church of England has set a competition with the intentions to encourage high quality church seat designs that can be retailed at an 'affordable price'.
Increasingly congregations are exploring the opportunity for creating a more flexible, multi-functional space in their church, by replacing existing seating. Some schemes are spoilt by the installation of chairs which fail to compliment or enhance historic interiors sometimes failing to also meet the original objectives of the parish.
Design Brief
Design church seating that combines good design with comfort and practicality, whilst maintaining sympathy with historic interiors. Ideally, designs need to specify UK manufacture as well as sustainably and locally sourced materials'.
Specifications
The design must be:
- Ergonomic
- Sympathetic to historic interiors
- Comfortable without necessarily depending on upholstery
- Workable on historical floors
- Sufficiently robust for regular use requiring minimum maintenance
- Able to stack or fold neatly and compactly
- Lightweight and easy to lift
The design could have:
- Upholstery
- The option of being linked, and of having a book holder, chair arms and hook or ledge for a kneeler
Another factor to add 'Ideally we should like to see designers specify UK manufacture as well as sustainability and locally sourced materials