장난감 정리함을 접목한 유아용 옷장 디자인 개발에 관한 연구

A Study on Closet Design for Infants in Use of a Toy Chest

It suggests a closet design for infants in consideration of space utilization, furniture arrangement, and goods storage by integrating a baby’s closet and toy chest, which was used for storage of baby’s toys and play instrument. For this, it conducted and analyzed data re-search on the infants’ toy chests in the domestic and overseas market and based on such ap-proach, the colors that helped development of infants’ cognition and emotion were selected while suggesting familiar animal characters for infants. Without considering separate arrange-ment of furniture and toy chest within limited space, it allowed space utilization and provided enough storing space. Also, the attached ball casters enabled easy carry of the closet and with this function, it helps infants arrange and store goods by themselves so that making them feel a sense of accomplishment. For effective spatial utilization as well as security of its genuine stor-age function, the closet and toy chest were combined in this study. Thus, it is believed that de-velopment of such multifunctional furniture will suggest the direction of researches on domestic furniture development that areconducted to maximize utilization of residential space for the people living today.