Time and Energy Savings Zone in the Kitchen

by Acorn Kitchens

There are over 100 kitchen zone movements per day in an average 4-person household kitchen. Thirty journeys leading to and from the table, fifty activities carried out in the kitchen zones, kitchen devices used thirty times and doors, drawers and pull-outs are opened and closed over 80 times. You don’t have to be an expert to figure out that this amounts to thousands of hours of work throughout the life of a kitchen.

This also amounts to thousands of Kilometres back and forth, innumerable knee bends and millions of small movements.

Blum carried out a study comparing traditionally planned kitchens using the so-called Thread Study with those planned in accordance with DYNAMIC SPACE criteria. The results showed that journeys in Dynamic Space kitchen were significantly shorter. As illustrated, some of these were up to 20% shorter.

However; it wasn’t just distances that were shortened, work times were also significantly reduced.

The amount of kitchen work time in a DYNAMIC SPACE kitchen was merely 1 hour and 40 minutes per day as opposed to 2 hours in other kitchens. It is also possible to save a further 10 minutes a day by using pull-outs in base cabinets instead of shelves. This amounts to a half an hour of saved time per day.

This illustration: With a Dynamic Space planned kitchen: 210 m per day, approx. 1530 km over 20 years. Savings: 397 km (25%)

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