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SMART K
The “Smart K”: Jim’s new kitchen.
Actual kitchens are dimensioned for old standard needs and not
customized to small spaces. Smart K is our proposition for the
new Jim’s kitchen, issued from a thin balance between special tailored features
and standard but compact products performances.
The main strategy is to do smaller, not only the appliances, but
the kitchen too. How to do more compact and better than the actual Jim’s
kitchen does? Starting to meet Jim’s needs, we want also to reduce actual
kitchen space to gain in space flexibility and by the way, a new entry to the
apartment were the kitchen will no longer be seen at the first sight. Even if the space is already narrow, we consider that the challenge
is rethinking the kitchen reorienting it to do more with less, and principally to
open up the space integrating it into the living spaces of the apartment. The proposal seeks to change the actual kitchen’s functional scheme
of “one wall” kitchen, (which actually takes all the entry space of the
apartment, and remains still not functional enough) into a “turned over the
space new one: The “Smart K” scheme. The idea is to allow a maximal social
interaction between the cooker and his guests. Using Corian’s flexibility and usual white lacquered cabinets, this
new scheme intensifies some functions in certain areas in 360° around the
cooker. These hotspots are four:
a)The row
preparation area, with the “intelligent” sink (with garbage disposal) and a two
spots gas cook top, located in the entrance wall, which defines a new apartment
entry hall.
b)The “smart
thin boxes wall” placed where the whole actual kitchen is located. Specially
tailored and integrating standard cabinets, we create a customized wall for
storage and small mobile appliances (like toaster or the coffee machine)
c) The “appliances
column”, which takes the whole height of the kitchen, it integrates all the
compact appliances needed by Jim (a refrigerator – freezer whit ice maker, a
hybrid oven – microwave, and a compact dishwasher).
d)Finally the
mobile kitchen island countertop, as the hub of the kitchen, it becomes a focal
point allowing different configurations to the kitchen space.
This mobile and multifunctional table could reconfigure the space
allowing a wide range of uses, from cook, gather around, and work at.
We imagine this nomad element as a joker, including some storage
space, a clear countertop and two integrated stools. It shall easily configure the space in at least three different
ways: (Cooking) Being part of the
kitchen as a main working countertop it allows space enough for two to prepare
meals and a great connection with other spaces of the apartment to social
interaction. (Eating) Connected as
well to the kitchen, but used as an eating table, releasing the two integrated
stools. (Hosting) As a buffet supplementary
surface, for receiving guests and separated from the kitchen, placed against
the wall and creating a complementary spot for gather. The proposal also considers a lighting scheme which uses the new
cabinetry and a new ceiling to integrate lighting spots and resize the kitchen
space in a contemporary way.
Aétrangère + A.I.T
Mario Caceres + Linda Ait Belkacem
Actual kitchens are dimensioned for old standard needs and not
customized to small spaces. Smart K is our proposition for the
new Jim’s kitchen, issued from a thin balance between special tailored features
and standard but compact products performances.
The main strategy is to do smaller, not only the appliances, but
the kitchen too. How to do more compact and better than the actual Jim’s
kitchen does? Starting to meet Jim’s needs, we want also to reduce actual
kitchen space to gain in space flexibility and by the way, a new entry to the
apartment were the kitchen will no longer be seen at the first sight. Even if the space is already narrow, we consider that the challenge
is rethinking the kitchen reorienting it to do more with less, and principally to
open up the space integrating it into the living spaces of the apartment. The proposal seeks to change the actual kitchen’s functional scheme
of “one wall” kitchen, (which actually takes all the entry space of the
apartment, and remains still not functional enough) into a “turned over the
space new one: The “Smart K” scheme. The idea is to allow a maximal social
interaction between the cooker and his guests. Using Corian’s flexibility and usual white lacquered cabinets, this
new scheme intensifies some functions in certain areas in 360° around the
cooker. These hotspots are four:
a)The row
preparation area, with the “intelligent” sink (with garbage disposal) and a two
spots gas cook top, located in the entrance wall, which defines a new apartment
entry hall.
b)The “smart
thin boxes wall” placed where the whole actual kitchen is located. Specially
tailored and integrating standard cabinets, we create a customized wall for
storage and small mobile appliances (like toaster or the coffee machine)
c) The “appliances
column”, which takes the whole height of the kitchen, it integrates all the
compact appliances needed by Jim (a refrigerator – freezer whit ice maker, a
hybrid oven – microwave, and a compact dishwasher).
d)Finally the
mobile kitchen island countertop, as the hub of the kitchen, it becomes a focal
point allowing different configurations to the kitchen space.
This mobile and multifunctional table could reconfigure the space
allowing a wide range of uses, from cook, gather around, and work at.
We imagine this nomad element as a joker, including some storage
space, a clear countertop and two integrated stools. It shall easily configure the space in at least three different
ways: (Cooking) Being part of the
kitchen as a main working countertop it allows space enough for two to prepare
meals and a great connection with other spaces of the apartment to social
interaction. (Eating) Connected as
well to the kitchen, but used as an eating table, releasing the two integrated
stools. (Hosting) As a buffet supplementary
surface, for receiving guests and separated from the kitchen, placed against
the wall and creating a complementary spot for gather. The proposal also considers a lighting scheme which uses the new
cabinetry and a new ceiling to integrate lighting spots and resize the kitchen
space in a contemporary way.
Aétrangère + A.I.T
Mario Caceres + Linda Ait Belkacem
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