d61 KITCHENS
In which room in the house do we usually eat our main meals of the day? Breakfast
Lunch Dinner
which provides a deeper analysis of the consequences and challenges of this new centrality: its meaning in our everyday individual and family lives; how it transforms the architectural concept of the home; how more recent technological advances and new forms of communication are integrated; how it influences personal health and well- being; the impact it has on growing environmental awareness; how it adopts techniques and utensils that are typically found in professional kitchens.”
WHERE WE EAT
“As the central core of the home, the kitchen is also the space that most explicitly reflects the changes and social transformations we are experiencing: it is an everyday indicator that projects our lifestyles, who we are, how we behave and how we evolve. In order to try and convey this relevance, this publication integrates a series of fictional short stories inspired by the kitchen, which we believe add a complementary vision that is hopefully even more surprising and differential. “
The report found that the idea of the domestic kitchen gaining prominence as a social space is something that is shared by most experts consulted on the matter. This trend is a reality despite the fact that, paradoxically, it is becoming increasingly common to eat out. Faced with it being used less as a purely ‘culinary’ space, the kitchen has started being the setting for activities that used to take place in other rooms in the home, and in many cases it even merges with the living room, creating a new environment for family life.
The survey shows a diversification in the use of the rooms in a house for eating our main meals of the day, with significant differences between cultures. The kitchen is the preferred space for breakfast (45%), followed by the dining room (15.7%) with a significantly lower percentage. 38.2% of respondents have lunch outside of the home,
although those who continue to eat at home still mention the kitchen as their first option (23.1%). At dinner, the living room, living/ dining room and kitchen are all used fairly equally. In the geographical breakdown, we can highlight that the main use of the kitchen at dinner time occurs in Scandinavian countries (85.1%).
Logically, this transformation of how it is used conditions the design of the space and its integration into the home as a whole, both in new constructions and in renovations. All of this is within an environment in which certain factors are playing an increasingly relevant role, such as new technologies which are fully evolving towards a hyperconnected space; constant innovation in materials; or growing environmental awareness. d
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SEP 2019
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