Cook (part)

The kitchen is a specific part in a building, especially equipped for the preparation with food and the dishes. One generally lays out to with it current Eau and various apparatuses electric household appliances (furnace, hotplates, refrigerator…). In a housing of the type Studio the kitchen is along a wall. Whereas the legislation prohibited it, Le Corbusier, in 1947 makes migrate the kitchen and the bathroom in the middle of housing thanks to a controlled mechanical Ventilation in its housing unit of Marseilles. What was an exemption becomes the standard then.

Campfire to the kitchen into hard

The kitchen as a specific place in the human Habitat did not always exist. However, as soon as the Feu was available, one observes a concentration of the reliefs of meal around the common hearth, which is interpreted like the birth of a form of collective place of consumption of cooked food. With the complexification of the preparation of food, the need comes to have a distinct space for this activity. This space remains at the disposal of all in much of tribal companies, because of the concept of division (of harvest, of hunting) which prevails in the majority of them.

With the division of the human group in smaller cells (family unit in particular), the function of kitchen remains but separates: it forms then part of the Logement. In certain cases however, whereas housing is individualistic (the human cell has a clean intimacy), the function of preparation of food remains Community. One finds examples of such common kitchens in Roman civilization, with a true service of restoration to the request in the big cities.

The equipment of the kitchen

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