Detail model
Isometric view of the detail model, a reproduction of the common kitchen and its most prominent features. Human figures added for scale.
Scale: 1:20
Materials: MDF – Solid Pinewood – Plywood – Stained Veneer
Waern Bugge and Göransson-Ljungman worked actively with women’s domestic working conditions, especially after the 1930 architecture fair in Stockholm and their corresponding critique in their previously mentioned publication. Their formal response and solution came in the form of little kitchenettes for the individual apartments but is most notable and interesting in the main shared kitchen on the fourth floor, which had its own pantry room and was just by the toddler room.
So for our detail model, we depicted the shared kitchen on a larger scale, to show all the little details and intricacies it had, such as distribution, flooring, appliances and furniture, based on the plans and photographs of the time. It is true though, that, now in perspective and after the examiner’s review, such details, while intricate and interesting, should have given an extra layer of meaning of the woman’s perspective whether through the use of colouring, comparison or some other form of “data-crossing”. This would have depicted not how good this kitchen was for women at the time, but rather, how much better than previous iterations mostly designed by men was in usability terms.
Front view of the detail model, with a table and flower vases otherwise hidden to not obscure details of the kitchen appliances. Human figures added for scale.
Scale: 1:20
Materials: MDF – Solid Pinewood – Plywood – Stained Veneer
Photos: Emanuel Murray
Group 5
Astrid Persdotter
Nelly Elfvelin
Leo Glasmeyer
Emanuel Murray