Adaptive Furniture Design Strategies : Beyond Pure Space Efficiency
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2021
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Living spaces are the dominant part of our lives. Taking into account recent adjustments that COVID-19 has brought into our lives, we now spend up to 69% of our day at home (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020). Home has become our place of work, place of meeting, relaxation, and a hobby studio. However, the availability of those living spaces has not increased. Quite the opposite - the world is suffering from a housing affordability crisis for at least a decade now and it's only getting worse (Galster and Lee 2020). According to the journal article by George Galstera, rising housing prices are correlated with limited space availability in the urban scape. This is a major point that brings designers to several solutions - first, the most common one is to build outwards. This solution causes inconvenience due to being too far from the place of work. The second one - adapting to the existing spaces that may have not been used for living before, often irregular or small. This approach is frequently referred to as more sustainable and space-conscious (Salazar and Aspizua Sáez 2014). As we now combine our dominant life indoors and limited space availability, we understand that the main tool we are left with is design. In order to create spaces that are cozy and welcoming but yet small, they need to be adaptable to our needs. Adaptable to our varying lifestyle, family sizes, priorities, and daily activities. Elements like furniture, in this case, form the level of transformability of our homes