The barrier-free environment directly affects the lives and travel of Paralympic athletes, and the smooth barrier-free streamline will bring them a more comfortable experience. The reporter recently learned from Jinyu Temple of Heaven Furniture that during the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the furniture throughout the venues was integrated into a variety of barrier-free and humanized designs.
The restaurant of the Winter Paralympic Games was originally a restaurant during the Winter Olympic Games, in order to facilitate wheelchair athletes to enter and exit and eat, the table and chair placement of the restaurant, the overall space including the height of the table, etc., one by one made targeted transformation and conversion. According to the relevant person in charge of Jinyu Temple of Heaven Furniture, all folding strip tables used during the Winter Olympics are "in situ conversion", and through the adjustment button of the table leg part, the height of all dining tables is uniformly raised by about 5 to 6 cm, increasing the height between the dining table and the ground, and more suitable for the height of wheelchairs, which is convenient for Paralympic athletes to eat.
In the winter paralympic village athletes' apartment, the height of the floor hanger beam has been reduced from the original 1800 mm to 1500 mm, which is convenient for disabled athletes to use in wheelchairs; in addition, the wardrobe in the winter Paralympic village athletes' apartment has been set up with an opening device, which is changed from the original handle device to the pressing pop-up opening device, which is more convenient for wheelchair users to open the wardrobe.
The overall design of the general furniture of the Winter Olympic venues mainly adheres to the design concept of "athlete-centered", which is convenient for the venue staff to carry under the premise of meeting the use of functions, and also meets the needs of rapid conversion between the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games. In order to practice the olympic concept of "green, sharing, openness and integrity", the tabletop and chair surface materials of steel and plastic strip tables and hard-faced folding chairs are made of high-density polyethylene materials, which are not only lightweight and resistant to low temperatures, but also can be recycled and reused to make hard hats, article packaging boxes and other items.
It is understood that as the official living furniture supplier of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Jinyu Temple of Heaven Furniture provides 27 categories and 211,000 pieces of general furniture for 43 venues.