The Kitchen as a Curated Space
- Typology
- Context
A kitchen that treats storage as a medium for display, arranged around a rotating island so the room moves rather than the person in it.
Academic project, BA Interior Design, Greenside Design Center. Images are design visualisations and drawings.
Narrative
The design maximises beauty and minimises chaos. It subverts the expectation of storage by asking why storage cannot also be display — the kitchen read as an exhibition of personal objects, so that only what is necessary and beautiful is kept.
The seating area is integrated into the counter, refusing the idea that every task in a home needs its own designated zone.
Resolved to construction-plan level: MDF and chipboard in a skimmed cement finish, a bamboo work surface, a brushed steel stool.
Key decisions
- A rotating island: the user stays in place while what they need swivels toward them
- Chairs that extract from the island and pair with a pull-out work surface
- Open storage as the organising logic
Nicole's role and scope
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