Oh Yeah Wow! A moody kitchen experience
The experience of Interior Architecture
The experience of Interior Architecture
The experience of Interior Architecture
We created a bespoke kitchen lighting experience tailored to the needs of the client’s family and their chef. The experience consists of a series of joinery elements that would gently light up the working benches and shelving system allowing the chef’s silhouette to peek through the beautiful glazed steel frame doors that enclose the chef’s kitchen area.
These steel doors have a refined metal mesh between the glass panels that filters the light towards the living and dining area almost as if the chef was the main event of the party. This expression allows the chef to concentrate while cooking as well as creating a beautiful backdrop for the guests.
We created a bespoke kitchen lighting experience tailored to the needs of the client’s family and their chef. The experience consists of a series of joinery elements that would gently light up the working benches and shelving system allowing the chef’s silhouette to peek through the beautiful glazed steel frame doors that enclose the chef’s kitchen area.
These steel doors have a refined metal mesh between the glass panels that filters the light towards the living and dining area almost as if the chef was the main event of the party. This expression allows the chef to concentrate while cooking as well as creating a beautiful backdrop for the guests.
We created a bespoke kitchen lighting experience tailored to the needs of the client’s family and their chef. The experience consists of a series of joinery elements that would gently light up the working benches and shelving system allowing the chef’s silhouette to peek through the beautiful glazed steel frame doors that enclose the chef’s kitchen area.
These steel doors have a refined metal mesh between the glass panels that filters the light towards the living and dining area almost as if the chef was the main event of the party. This expression allows the chef to concentrate while cooking as well as creating a beautiful backdrop for the guests.
In Architecture like UX, the client sometimes has assumptions about their problem and needs. Our job as designers and strategists is to challenge this idea and provide an unexpected solution. The solution should exceed the mindset already in place.
First and foremost, it was important to understand a week in the life of our client and their family, the everyday needs and current problems they experience when it comes to the use of their kitchen and dining areas as a family.
As part of the final solution, we designed a custom steel glazed door system that would open up entirely and store itself within one of the joinery pieces to be fully concealed for when the chef’s kitchen was not in use, this would feel as if it was one big kitchen.
For an event day, the steel glazed door system would be unpacked and close off the chef’s kitchen area creating a semi-translucent effect that would allow the chef to still be visible by the guests at the same time as providing privacy for the kitchen staff to concentrate.
The thin metal mesh within the door system combined with the joinery lighting that would gently change colours would create a sense of mystery and curiosity generating a silhouette of the chef that would peak through the doors encouraging the guests to observe without interrupting.
The door system would have 2 accessible doors that would allow staff to go in and out of the kitchen to easily serve the guests without interrupting the party.
What did I do?
I collaborated with another Architect and the Director of the studio, where I was responsible for coming up with different iterations that would suit the client's needs and solve their painpoints as well finilising the design to a point that it was approved by the client and ready for construction.
