When kitchen's purpose, ideal design and it's appropriate space in a house was being concluded century ago or so, then architects actually had no vision of app based food delivery, home based chef, role of kitchen/kitchen products in remote elementary education, working women, gender equality in kitchen, work from home concept, how important kitchen waste reduction and management is and so on; when this matter is being discussed today, we hardly have any realistic idea how robots are going to take over kitchen in near-distant future, how 3D printed food may altar food production/ preferences, how IIOT/ IOT may impact farm-to-plate food supply chain, whether community/ township level bespoke food/ pizza vending machine may even render private kitchen obsolete.
When architects were convinced that there is basic necessity of having lobby,
lounge, drawing room and dining room/area as essential elements of a reasonable
house, they had no vision that majority of family individuals in future will
spend most of their non-working hours/ personal work hours/ recreation hours/
study hours within two to ten feet range from their TV set and/or desktop/
study table/ gaming console; they didn't envisage that "Activity" and
"lifestyle" (scrolling phone, tab, working/ entertaining on laptop,
yoga mat time - all virtually devoid of space anchorage) will be paramount
compared to need of "Formal Space" (drawing room etc.); they had no
idea that family members will be doing part of talking/ communication /
information exchange virtually (as a routine) even when present under one roof,
getting rid of dining table discussion; they missed visualising that in future
due to almost autonomous lifestyle of individual family members of a household
it will be almost impossible to bring every family member to dining table, that
too at same time and also not realising that with plethora of audio-visual
choices and modes available, the empowered individuals in a family will lack
the time, motivation and patience to gather in front of TV to watch a common
channel, defying purpose of drawing room.
And likewise.
Come today- dining room mutating into study room, drawing room reinvented as
gym and so on, calls for urgent need of revisiting the inherited architectural
values and reinventing ideology of functional space.
Author: Anoop Jha
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