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kitchen work triangle for residential.

7/22/2014


Kitchen is among of the most usable spaces in a house. It should work effectively so as to make the whole house a good home. In order to make the kitchen a good space, considerations must be done during the design stage especially in kitchen work triangle. 


No matter what layout (L layout, U layout, linear layout, curved layout, double lane layout) is used in the design of a kitchen, the triangle shall be taken into considerations. 

 

KITCHEN WORK TRIANGLE is the imaginary line drawn between three most used points in a kitchen which are refrigerator - the cold storage work site, sink - the cleaning/preparation work site, stove - the cooking work site. 


 The goal of a good kitchen work triangle is to place these three most common work sites the most efficient distance apart and to minimize traffic through the work zone. If you place these too far away from each other you waste a lot of steps while preparing a meal. If they are too close to each other you have a cramped kitchen without any place to work.

How the triangle works. 

The kitchen work triangle principle is used by kitchen designers and architects when designing residential kitchens as follows;

  • No leg of the triangle should be less than 1.2 m or more than 2.7 m.
  • The sum of all three sides of the triangle should be between 4.0 m and 7.9 m.
  • Cabinets or other obstacles should not intersect any leg of the triangle by more than 30 cm.
  • there should be no traffic flow through the triangle.
  • A full-height obstacle, such as a tall cabinet, should not come between any two points of the triangle. 
 

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