고령자 주방공간의 디자인 방향성 연구

(Background and Purpose) The elderly in South Korea is a generation that experienced the Korean War and spent their youth in the modern and contemporary era and they have experiences of the Korean traditional space, apartments, and western culture. They experienced changes in the furnace type kitchen and walk-in kitchen as well as changes through high-tech technological development like refrigerator, dishwasher, and oven but the eating culture like cooking and eating habits have not changed significantly. This study will investigate how the kitchen space is used in the residential space of the elderly and perform an analysis on the problems. The ultimate purpose of this study is to use it as data to propose a new residential space design direction for the elderly to suit the changing social environment. (Method) This study conducted a field investigation and survey on the kitchen space for the elderly. For the field investigation, a visit was made to 4 households throughout June to August, 2019 to do an in-depth interview and evaluation factors for the survey were deduced. The survey was targeted on 107 elderly throughout the period of October to December, 2019 and the research subjects had to fill out a survey questionnaire 1:1 that was created based on the evaluation factors and their opinions were collected. The analysis findings were used to derive results that can secure accuracy and objectivity by using the SPSS statistical program. (Results) In the kitchen counter, the kitchen equipment provided the highest satisfaction. Meanwhile, the area and quality of the kitchen counter provided low satisfaction. For the kitchen cabinet, there was high satisfaction in the form of the under cabinet-height of the under cabinet- and the door operator of the cabinet and there was low satisfaction in the number of the cabinet and the height of the upper cabinet. For the kitchen material and quality, ceramic/marble and hardwood materials were preferred for the furniture and the conditions that were considered the most for selecting the material were safety and manageability of cleaning. Meanwhile, the least number of users considered the aesthetic effect. (Conclusions) Based on the study findings, the following design directivity is proposed for the kitchen space of the elderly. First, improvement of the kitchen space for the elderly must be considered in priority of the area of the kitchen, kitchen counter, dining space, and cabinet environment. Second, for the kitchen furniture, the area of the kitchen counter must be extended and the form of the upper cabinet must be improved in the cabinet furniture. Third, plans are made so that natural lighting can flow in more into the kitchen space of the elderly.