Abstract
In designing and planning of the furnitures and the room interiors it is necessary to evaluate systimcally and quantatively various postures appearing in man's living, not to mention the essentia 1 anthropometric data. In the present paper a classification of possible living postures was attempted and the height of main body parts as well as the size of space occupied in those postures were measured to obtain necessary data for desiging. The results show that the eye height of those fundamental living postures does not distribute evenly. The eye height never falls within the range between 30-65cm or 121-138cm above the floor for average Japanese male adults. The space occupied is revealed to be approximately the same for standing, chair-sitting or lying postures. being about 1.2-1.3 m2, but about the half of the value for floor-sitting.
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