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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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