An outdoor kitchen concept for Livsyta
Abstract: This is a master thesis done during Spring 2022 within Industrial Design Engineering at the Royale Institute of Technology, KTH. The purpose of the project is to develop a new outdoor kitchen concept for the company Livsyta AB. The company focuses on selling holistic cooking experiences in the form of outdoor kitchens. The company owner, Petter Andersson, have a goal of scaling up his company with creating a new iteration of his previous outdoor kitchen designs. The new developed concept is meant to be modularized and based on Scandinavian and Japanese design and should include the necessary functions for a complete outdoor kitchen. The deliverable in the project is a new outdoor kitchen concept design presented in form of CAD models and renderings. In addition, another deliverable is technical drawings of the outdoor kitchen concept. The project work follows the double diamond method and is divided into three phases. An initial frame of reference was made to understand standardization within kitchen design as well as the characteristics of both Scandinavian and Japanese design. In the first phase, background research was made in order to get an understanding of today’s outdoor kitchen market where the research showed a potential gap in the range of products available. Together with the market analyzes, user studies were made in form of both a survey and interviews in order to understand needs and desires of outdoor kitchen users. The gained insights and conclusions were condensed into personas and a requirement specification. During the second phase, various idea generation methods were used together with an in-depth material analysis which led to three developed concepts being presented to the company. In the third phase, the final outdoor kitchen concept design was developed including its construction and choices of material and hardware. The final product is a modular outdoor kitchen design drawing inspiration from both Scandinavian and Japanese design. The kitchen was realized through CAD models, renderings and technical drawings.
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