Built-in Furniture Research Articles

The Castle: A Lean Micro-Dwelling

The Castle, a long-term collaboration between the School of Architecture & Design and local youth-service organizations, intends to assist youth at risk of homelessness by deploying micro-dwellings to households experiencing spatial and emotional distress. Responding to a demonstrated gap in the housing market, the brief for The Castle demands a dwelling that is small, mobile, autonomous and spatially clever. Aside from important social and pedagogical agendas The Castle explores ‘leanness’ in timber construction. Three prototypes have resulted in ‘panitecture,’ a highly adaptive construction system composed of CNC-router cut folded plate plywood wall panels integrated with built-in furniture. Panitecture results in an overall reduction in material waste, direct applicability to a low-skilled workforce and opportunities for mass-customisation, accommodating infinite design configurations to be processed without the need for continual redesign. Options are also available for deployment onto site—as a digital file, as individual components, assembled panels, an assembled carcass or as a completed dwelling.

붙박이장의 형태, 구조 변화와 소비자 특성 연구

오늘날 우리나라의 주거문화가 일반주택에서 아파트 주거환경으로 확산되면서 안방가구 장롱에 변화도 일반장에서 붙박이장과 같은 맞춤형가구로 변화해 가고 있다. 소비자의 생활이 풍족하고 여유로워 짐으로써 안방가구도 개개인의 소비자 욕구에 맞는 형식과 기능, 디자인 특성으로 바뀌어져 가고 있다. 따라서 붙박이장의 특성으로 구조, 기능, 소재를 고찰하여 기본적인 변화를 분석하고, 일반장과 붙박이장을 비교 분석하여 환경에서의 변화요소와 편리성에서의 변화요소를 분석하였다. 또한 소비자의 자가지 특성과 개성에 맞는 형태와 디자인을 개발하기 위하여 다양한 소비자 욕구 형태를 분석하였다. 그러므로 본 연구는 주거환경의 변화에서 어울리는 디자인적인 요소와, 다른 공간에서의 변화에 소비자가 원하는 대로 내부공간 활용이 가능한 효율적인 형태 구조를 제시하기 위한 기초 자료로 제공하고자 하였다. As the residential culture of Korea is transformed from house oriented to apartment oriented residential environment these days, the bedroom closets are changing into the built-in furniture such as built-in closets. As the life style of consumers become richer and wealthy, the bedroom furniture is changing to respond for the forms, function, and design characteristics of the consumer's demand. Therefore, in this study, the characteristics of the built-in closets such as structure, function and material were studied to analyze the basic changes and compared the normal closet to the built-in closet to analyze the elements in terms of environment and convenience. Moreover, to develop forms and designs to fit various characteristics and differences of the consumers, various forms of consumer demand were analyzed. Therefore, this study intended to provide the basic information for providing the efficient form and structure that enables the use of internal space as the consumer wishes to change the design elements, and other spaces to fit the changed residential environment.

レッジョ・カラブリア駅のデザインについて : イタリア人建築家アンジョロ・マッツォーニの駅舎建築研究

Angiolo Mazzoni's Reggio Calabria Station Building, constructed in 1938, is one of the latest works of a series of railway station buildings that Mazzoni had designed in Italy. One explanation for Reggio Calabria Station Building characteristic would be that it achieved the total design by systematic rule in each level from architecture to furniture. It was based on "The principle of architecture" that Mazzoni suggested in the magazine Architettura e Arti Decorative, in 1927. The rules adopt the following logic. First, a grid system is set for fixing the ground plan and the elevation of the architecture. Next, the same grid is divided equally as a layout of stones to finish the surface inside and outside of architecture; the built-in furniture also follows the layout of stones as a part of the architecture. In addition, shelves are also designed by the systematic way, determination of the proportion by the combination of contents inside and the division of the front of shelves.

Japanese Buildings in the United States before 1900: Their Influence upon American Domestic Architecture

THE Japanese elements incorporated in contemporary American dwellings are now so numerous and readily recognized that it is no longer necessary to argue the fact of Far Eastern inspiration. The small house, essentially of wood, in close communion with its setting, having a flexible plan and sliding screen walls, with built-in furniture, restraint of decoration, and quiet color schemes largely achieved by the use of unpainted woods and other natural materials, is prevalent throughout America. There remains, however, some question with regard to the exact source, the date, and the manner in which the Japanese characteristics were first accepted.1