Report on Built in Furniture
A REPORT ON BUILT-IN-FURNITURE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
SWAPNIL SUBHASH VIDHATE 4TH YEAR ARCHITECTURE ROLL NO-62. ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE.
1.BUILT IN FURNITURE
During the last two or three years there has been a decided tendency toward built-in furniture. This comes from the fact that the cost of modern home building is so too much. Built-in furniture is both easy and economical to construct.
By definition “furniture” in the woodworking sense is generally understood to refer to movable pieces, built-in furniture, may be taken to mean fixed architectural elements that provide the same function as their movable namesakes. Sometimes, indeed, the term may refer to a separate piece of furniture that has been fixed in place and which now employs part of the surrounding architecture as an integral part of its construction, such as a wall that forms the back of a built-in cabinet.
The concept is not new, the earliest examples being wall benches, that date back to the middle Ages, all originally built as architectural features, but which subsequently developed into stand-alone pieces of furniture.
Examples of contemporary furniture that may be usefully designed as built-in furniture include various shelving, beds, benches, bookcases, cabinets, mirrors, and entertainment centers can also be categorized as built-in furniture, in the sense that these can be constructed with the same joinery and tool techniques as a free-standing piece of furniture. Some built-in furniture can by definition only exist as such, for example, window seats and closets.
During the last two or three years there has been a decided tendency toward built-in furniture. This comes from the fact that the cost of modern home building is so great that when the average young couple is finished with their home they have practically nothing left wherewith to buy furniture. There is an old saying to the effect that practically
SWAPNIL SUBHASH VIDHATE 4TH YEAR ARCHITECTURE ROLL NO-62. ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE.
1.BUILT IN FURNITURE
During the last two or three years there has been a decided tendency toward built-in furniture. This comes from the fact that the cost of modern home building is so too much. Built-in furniture is both easy and economical to construct.
By definition “furniture” in the woodworking sense is generally understood to refer to movable pieces, built-in furniture, may be taken to mean fixed architectural elements that provide the same function as their movable namesakes. Sometimes, indeed, the term may refer to a separate piece of furniture that has been fixed in place and which now employs part of the surrounding architecture as an integral part of its construction, such as a wall that forms the back of a built-in cabinet.
The concept is not new, the earliest examples being wall benches, that date back to the middle Ages, all originally built as architectural features, but which subsequently developed into stand-alone pieces of furniture.
Examples of contemporary furniture that may be usefully designed as built-in furniture include various shelving, beds, benches, bookcases, cabinets, mirrors, and entertainment centers can also be categorized as built-in furniture, in the sense that these can be constructed with the same joinery and tool techniques as a free-standing piece of furniture. Some built-in furniture can by definition only exist as such, for example, window seats and closets.
During the last two or three years there has been a decided tendency toward built-in furniture. This comes from the fact that the cost of modern home building is so great that when the average young couple is finished with their home they have practically nothing left wherewith to buy furniture. There is an old saying to the effect that practically