Unidine
Centralize your kitchen area.
This transformable dining table fosters new interactions in the kitchen, enabling shared meals and collaborative cooking experiences with friends and family.
Recognition
Design Excellence Award, The Design School, Arizona State University
Year
2022
“I get so overwhelmed when someone else comes into my kitchen when I am cooking.”
— From Reddit
Traditional kitchens often confine one person to meal prep, leaving others as bystanders, due to spatial constraints and distributed layout, hindering collaboration and family engagement.
Problem
Observation
I observed the entire process of cooking in three homes, including both Eastern and Western kitchen layouts
Analysis shows that standard kitchen designs cause inefficiency and tiredness due to the frequent back-and-forth between separate cooking, washing, and dining areas.
How might we create a more centralized kitchen space that not only brings people together to dine but also invites collaborative cooking experiences?
Ideation & Prototying
Unidine
Centralized kitchen island.
Unlock the latches to easily transform into various layouts.
Details make Unidine different.
Innovations
UniDine uses silent U-groove steel pulleys to replace traditional slideways, enhancing the product with a seamless, aesthetic, and reliable sliding experience.
The liftable faucet design is both liftable for use and drops down to merge seamlessly with the cooktop surface when not in use.
Replacing traditional knobs with a touch screen simplifies operations and is easy to clean.
A hidden range hood around the cooktop for seamless, effective ventilation.
Design Language
The faucet design inspired by the sight of a whale's tail rippling through the sea.
Unidine
Cooking together.
Dining together.