John Noble - Activities and spaces - Dimensonal Data for Housing Design
Activities and spaces is a compilation of data for housing design on sizes of furniture and equipment, and on the spaces needed to use them. Produced by the DOE, it does not confine itself to the recommended minimum sizes of Parker Morris and Space in the home. It ranges both up to the 'executive' dwelling and down to the tight spaces of starter homes.
So Activities and spaces will be useful to both public and private sector housing designers, and to those responsible for preparing design criteria for the future. It is intended primarily as a reference document. Most of it consists of dimensionaI data presented in diagrams and tables. These data are grouped under seven main headings, as set out in the contents. They are preceded by an explanation of the purpose, scope and sources of data, and followed by statistics on furniture ownership among local authority tenants.
The material in this book was first published in The Architects' Journal of 15 December 1982.