A Basic Study on the Standardization of Foot wear Cabinet - At the General Public Housing Scale Apartment

국민주택형 아파트 신발장의 규격화를 위한 기초조사

This study aimed to find out the suitable design of footwear cabinet. The questionnaire data from 1969 persons of 400 families about footwear cabinet showed following results. 1) The number of shoes was related with sex, age, occupation, family income, the number of family members and educational level of housewives. 2) The size of shoes in the range of 80% of the investigated shoes was 30cm of height, 30cm of length, and 10cm of width. 3) The satisfaction with footwear cabints was mainly decided by the size and space of the cabinet. 4) Umbrella, tools and shoe polish and brush were usually kept in the footwear cabinet as well as shoes. On the basic of the results above. The size of 108cm of length (20cm for umbrella), 35cm of width and 105cm of height is sugested as the desirable footwear cabinet for the General public housing scale apartment for 5 family members and this cabinet should have 5 divider and one flexible divider by 30cm which may be adjusted by 20cm.