Family B.: Push to open
Quote: "And where will the robot vacuum live?"
Category: Interior design, UX space organisation
Duration: Several weeks, online and in person
Project vibe: "U mě dobrý" (Fine by me), Jan Hřebejk, 2008
Some projects begin with the sentence: "We have chaos."
This one began a little differently. Floor plans opened, SketchUp, notes, tape measures came out, we got to know the children, the ideas and the dreams, and suddenly we weren't organising cupboards.
We were organising a life. Planning the micro-moments of daily life that will repeat themselves for hundreds of days.
With Push to Open we thought about everything from the point of view of use.
Not what goes where, but what a person does ten times a day. Where they make coffee. Where they grab a towel. How many steps they take. Where they get stuck. Where it's safe for the baby and where the bunker is for the older one.
The result was a coffee corner that still makes us a little happy. Matcha and cocoa on rotating organisers up top, cups below, and beneath them the coffee machine on a shallow pull-out so it's easy to top up with water and beans.
And at the very bottom? The secret world of the robot vacuum and mop: service from the front, a discreet exit at the side. (Once the little robot has a soul, it will put up a sign: I live here.)
We took on the children's rooms too. How to fit a baby, a nursery-schooler and an older child into a few square metres without anyone ending up hanging from the lamp. Zones for playing together, places to hide from the world and climbing elements that grow with the children.
Then came phase two: "Right. And what goes where?" At times we were organisers, at times home curators, at times peace negotiators.
So, online and in person, we placed books, decorations and the objects of everyday life together so it would be beautiful, logical, working for the long term (not just in a photo) and to the satisfaction of everyone living in the new home.
Fewer steps. Fewer decisions. Fewer snags.
Push. And open.
