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A Study on Louis I. Kahn’s Concept and Design of Built-in Furniture

American architect Louis I. Kahn is an architect who paid attention to the fundamental power and possibilities of space. Compared to the representative architectural works he designed, there are relatively few studies on small-scale housing works. Moreover, there is no research on built-in furniture included in the housing design. Kahn designed all the built-in furniture himself, and he had interest and passion for furniture, such as coming to the office alone and designing furniture on weekends. This study started with a small clue showing Kahn's passion for furniture. There were few prior studies, so data on his built-in furniture were collected from photos in the collection of works dealing with Kahn's housing design. Of the housing works he designed, nine were actually built, of which a total of five houses had built-in furniture enough to be analyzed, and they were studied to find their formative characteristics. In conclusion, the characteristics of built-in households in the five housing works designed by Louis Kahn can be summarized as follows. First, the form of built-in furniture is simple and humble, but the formative role is very important. Second, in early housing work, it is a form attached to the wall, but in later works, it often takes an independent form. Third, built-in households showed new possibilities for built-in furniture by combining them with window systems. Fourth, the formability of the built-in furniture is located on the extension of the formative vocabulary of architecture. Fifth, by designing built-in furniture only with wood, it was intended to maintain connection with tradition and to form a warm place for the house.