Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Creative Components Dissertations Spring 2020 Solo Seating Design: Tables and Stools for Flexible Seating Arrangements Carl Swenson Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/creativecomponents Part of the Interior Architecture Commons Recommended Citation Swenson, Carl, "Solo Seating Design: Tables and Stools for Flexible Seating Arrangements" (2020). Creative Components. 556. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/creativecomponents/556 This Creative Component is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Creative Components by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Solo Seating Design: Tables and Stools for Flexible Seating Arrangements by Carl Harold Swenson A Creative Component Thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: Interior Design Program of Study Committee: Yongyeon Cho, Major Professor Lee Cagley Paul Shao The student author, whose presentation of the scholarship herein was approved by the program of study committee, is solely responsible for the content of this creative component thesis. The Graduate College will ensure this creative component thesis is globally accessible and will not permit alterations after a degree is conferred. Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2020 Copyright © Carl Harold Swenson, 2020. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................... iiv LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................ vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................ vii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................. viii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................9 Statement of problem ................................................................................................................. 9 Purpose of the research ............................................................................................................ 10 Research questions .................................................................................................................. 11 Significance of research ........................................................................................................... 11 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................................................12 Fine restaurant design - requirements ...................................................................................... 12 Fine restaurant design - culture ............................................................................................... 14 Single person visitor - perception and psychology .................................................................. 15 Solo Dining, Space, and Distance .................................................................................... 15 Gender and Solo Dining in Upper-Class Restaurants ...................................................... 17 Solo Dining and Technology ........................................................................................... 17 Solo Dining and Healthy Eating ...................................................................................... 19 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 20 CHAPTER 3. METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................21 Quantitative research - Online survey ..................................................................................... 21 Quantitative research - Case studies ........................................................................................ 21 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER 4. RESULTS ...............................................................................................................23 Quantitative research - Online survey ..................................................................................... 23 Quantitative research - Case studies ....................................................................................... 33 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................. 39 CHAPTER 5. CREATIVE COMPONENTS ................................................................................40 iii Process work and images ......................................................................................................... 40 Final furniture images and layouts .......................................................................................... 52 CHAPTER 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS .....................................................................57 Summary of the research ......................................................................................................... 57 Limitation of the research ........................................................................................................ 57 Future research ........................................................................................................................ 58 REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................59 APPENDIX A. IRB CERTIFICATE .............................................................................................61 APPENDIX B. IRB APPROVAL FORM .....................................................................................62 APPENDIX C. INFORMATION CONSENT FORM ..................................................................64 APPENDIX D. ONLINE SURVEY ..............................................................................................68 iv LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 4.1. Students consider themselves “Somewhere in-between” ........................................... 23 Figure 4.2. Majority of the students are very young ..................................................................... 24 Figure 4.3. Gender is equal male and female ................................................................................ 24 Figure 4.4. Ethnic group is mostly white ...................................................................................... 25 Figure 4.5 Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences college’s prevail! .................................... 26 Figure 4.6 Fast food and casual restaurants are most visited ........................................................ 27 Figure 4.7 Students do not dine-out a lot on their own ................................................................. 28 Figure 4.8 Majority of students like 20 – 40 minutes to enjoy their meal .................................... 29 Figure 4.9 Café seating preference ............................................................................................... 30 Figure 4.10 Fast food seating preference ...................................................................................... 30 Figure 4.11 Casual seating preference .......................................................................................... 31 Figure 4.12 Fine dining seating preference ................................................................................... 31 Figure 4.13 Bar seating preference ............................................................................................... 32 Figure 5.1 Table top model ........................................................................................................... 40 Figure 5.2 Table shapes poster ...................................................................................................... 41 Figure 5.3 Small triangle table and stoolw ................................................................................... 42 Figure 5.4 Large triangle table and stool. ..................................................................................... 42 Figure 5.5 Half round table and stool ........................................................................................... 43 Figure 5.6 Quarter round table and stool ...................................................................................... 43 Figure 5.7 Rectangle table and stool ............................................................................................. 44 Figure 5.8 Yin-Yang table and stool ............................................................................................. 44 Figure 5.9 (2) Yin-Yang tables and (2) stools .............................................................................. 45 v Figure 5.10 (2) Triangle tables and (2) stools .............................................................................