Free Designing: Zoning A Large Space
Total fashion free layout, studio apartments and combined kitchen-dining room has its pitfalls. Any architect will tell you that simply is not enough to demolish the wall. Not divided into subzones a large area very soon may begin to oppress. Remove the partitions between rooms, combine them with corridors and kitchens and you get a completely new facility, where it will soon find you do not like to live.
Why do you need more space in your interior?
Because psychologically we need few different places for different classes.
We need to have separate, though conventionally delimited area, where we could sit quietly and eat without feeling behind twenty meters of empty space to a nook, where we could retire with a book, and so on.
The first rule of planning open space is at least visually separate areas of different functional purpose like cooking, eating, watching TV, work, leisure, communication… You can do this by:
a) the different textures of floor;
b) drop height of the ceiling or arches between the kitchen and living area;
c) multiple columns;
d) a light curtain (usually more brightly lit dining room and kitchen are in semi-darkness, illuminated only where work surfaces);
e) “breakfast bar” or some other interior acting as a barrier.
