실버세대의 부엌디자인 방향제안

A Direction of Kitchen Design for the Silver Generation

This study is focused on seeking the significance of kitchen in future spaces for the elderly, which consider residential environments changing, with the stream of the times and the changed concept of the elderly, and suggesting an appropriate design direction. For this study, sixty seven academic journals on the elderly and designs were analysed and relevant key words were extracted. Based on the key words extracted, design factors and improvement measures were set and after an interview with nine experts, a design direction was established. As a re-sult, five kitchen environment factors were extracted; eco-friendly (eco-design), universal (uni-versal design), health healing (wellbeing), digital (smart IoT) and color environments. It is con-sidered that for the elderly, kitchen environments, which pursue physical and psychological comfort and happiness can be suggested by transforming health healing factors to the theme of wellbeing. Universal design, eco-design and color environments were set as primary design fac-tors, and smart IoT environments that enrich kitchen environments for the elderly were set as secondary factors. In order to make a contribution to the improvement in changing residential environments of the elderly, this study aims to explore the use or the significance of kitchen in residential environments of the elderly and find design factors for developing proper kitchen en-vironments and furniture.