Research on The Design Process of Chinese Kitchen Integrating Food Culture Factors

In the context of globalization, industrialized production has brought about the problem of product homogenization, so identifying and passing on local culture has become crucial. Chinese kitchens have always accompanied the development of food culture and demonstrated uniqueness. However, with the advancement of urbanization and industrialization and the gradual development of Chinese housing towards flats, the design and layout of urban kitchens have been directly referenced and imitated from Western countries, resulting in insufficient kitchen space to meet the needs of Chinese family's food culture and dietary lifestyles. Therefore, this paper aims to access the explicit and implicit cultural characteristics of Chinese food culture by identifying traditional food culture and studying the dietary lifestyles of modern users. Subsequently, the values and behavioral characteristics of these cultures are transformed into factors of Chinese kitchen design, and the direction of kitchen design enhancement that is more in line with the cultural background of Chinese users is proposed. Based on this goal, the thesis first sorted out the relationship between culture and design. Then, using the theory of the three levels of culture and the method of user behavior observation, it systematically obtains the influencing factors of Chinese traditional food culture on kitchen design and the cultural characteristics of modern kitchen use behavior. Finally, based on the value and behavioral factors of food culture, the direction of kitchen design that conforms to the values and behavioral habits of Chinese food culture is proposed.